From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 15 16:57:01 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81FEF16A4CE for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:57:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.cableone.net (scanmail3.cableone.net [24.116.0.123]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 348EF43D3F for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:57:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from v.velox@vvelox.net) Received: from vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net (unverified [24.119.122.85]) by smail3.cableone.net (SurgeMail 1.9b) with ESMTP id 27477063 for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 09:42:15 -0700 Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 11:57:02 -0500 From: Vulpes Velox To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20040715115702.7ec43057@vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net> In-Reply-To: <395AE78F.6ED0EF04.3F8EDD3A@cs.com> References: <395AE78F.6ED0EF04.3F8EDD3A@cs.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.10) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD Goals X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:57:01 -0000 On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:23:11 -0400 Sigmascape1@cs.com wrote: > Hi, > > I am not a huge poster to this mailing list, but I am interested in > FreeBSD. Generally speaking, is one goal of FreeBSD and its > community, to make FreeBSD as easy to use a mainstream Linux distro? > I'm just curious. I see a lot of potential for FreeBSD on the server > side of things, but Linux and its various distros are now making > Linux easier to use on the front end of things (client side) as well > as being solid in the server department. Having used SuSE 8 and 9, I > can say Linux has now entered a new world of 'ease-of-use.' What is truely needed is a MMC clone. The linux is beat completely hands down. Lol, from all the users of linux I've talked to I've still not seen this 'easy-to-use'... once some one wants to expand beyond the base of the distro they are running, it still has massive problems... > >From my position, I am much more interested in BSD-based > >alternatives that offer me and my staff alternatives on the client > >side. Obviously, Mac OS X is a strong alternative, but most of our > >hardware is x86-based. Our hardware is probably not change, so > >Linux is an option that is difficult to ignore. > > Any thoughts? MMC clone.