From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 26 06:34:17 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8279916A421 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 06:34:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from punosevac@math.arizona.edu) Received: from smtp102.math.arizona.edu (smtp102.math.arizona.edu [128.196.102.202]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 680E013C474 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 06:34:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from punosevac@math.arizona.edu) Received: from Debian-exim by smtp102.math.arizona.edu with local-bsmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IwXXd-00063U-Fr for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 25 Nov 2007 23:34:07 -0700 Received: from 71-220-154-82.tcsn.qwest.net ([71.220.154.82] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by smtp102.math.arizona.edu with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50) id 1IwXXW-000633-Ju; Sun, 25 Nov 2007 23:33:54 -0700 Message-ID: <474A6803.8020704@math.arizona.edu> Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 23:30:27 -0700 From: Predrag Punosevac User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: perryh@pluto.rain.com References: <200711251737.46428.lumiwa@gmail.com> <474A444B.7030909@math.arizona.edu> <474a60e1.wgU6QFQEFd+I7NaT%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <474a60e1.wgU6QFQEFd+I7NaT%perryh@pluto.rain.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Outgoing-Spam-Score: -5.9 (-----) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: K3b X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 06:34:17 -0000 perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: >> BTW: I really gets annoyed when people say by the way >> it works in Linux, Windows, Solaris or whatever. >> What is that suppose to mean? >> > > When someone describes a problem getting a certain hardware setup > to work as desired in FreeBSD, and reports that it works in some > other OS, I would take it to mean that one need not suggest testing > the hardware, since it is already known to work properly in the > other environment. For someone who happens to be familiar with > whatever other OS was mentioned, it may also serve as an example > of the sort of operation that the poster was attempting to achieve > in FreeBSD. > I realized after replaying to the mail! I apologize to the sender of the original message for the tone of my post. Cheers, Predrag