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Date:      Thu, 9 Aug 2007 12:56:14 -0500
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To:        Reid Linnemann <lreid@a.cs.okstate.edu>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Convince me, please!
Message-ID:  <20070809175614.GA12755@Grumpy.DynDNS.org>
In-Reply-To: <46BB4FE0.5060500@cs.okstate.edu>
References:  <46BA9682.7020203@ix.netcom.com> <20070809140617.GB10705@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <20070809185248.J71656@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20070809173032.GB12072@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <46BB4FE0.5060500@cs.okstate.edu>

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On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 12:33:20PM -0500, Reid Linnemann wrote:
> Written by David Kelly on 08/09/07 12:30>>
> >On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 06:54:37PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >>>For the best user experience, and Unix too: MacOS X.
> >>a very little unix (few tools and kernel) + lots of bulky overhead ...
> >
> >Try it, you will find otherwise. The user interface works without
> >hassle. MacOS X comes with more standard utilities than does FreeBSD,
> >for instance procmail, fetchmail, sqlite3, Apache, php 4.4.7, ...
> 
> Not that I'm against your argument that OS X is a good system, but since 
> when are 3rd party services standard utilities?

What "standard utility" in FreeBSD didn't start somewhere outside of
BSD?

-- 
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
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Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.



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