Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:44:40 -0800 From: pete wright <nomadlogic@gmail.com> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LinuxBSDos.com article Message-ID: <57d710001002181744td04d3b7m4d50fece3cb29bc0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100219013952.GB60258@comcast.net> References: <20100218100632.GA60258@comcast.net> <87zl36etg6.fsf@kobe.laptop> <20100219013952.GB60258@comcast.net>
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On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Charlie Kester <corky1951@comcast.net> wro= te: > On Thu 18 Feb 2010 at 02:20:25 PST Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> >> On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:06:32 -0800, Charlie Kester <corky1951@comcast.ne= t> >> wrote: >>> >>> http://linuxbsdos.com/2010/02/18/pc-bsds-graphical-firewall-manager/ >>> >>> "PC-BSD is ... the only BSD-based distribution that's in a position to >>> compete with the best Linux desktop distributions..." >>> >>> <sigh> >> >> This is a pretty realistic way to put it, IMO. =A0Note that, to PC-BSD's >> credit, it is compares with the *best* Linux distributions. =A0That's a >> nice way of saying how cool PC-BSD is :-) > > Not taking anything away from PC-BSD, but the way the article put it, it > sounded like a slam on FreeBSD (and OpenBSD and NetBSD too). > hrm I took that as an indication of the good foundation that FreeBSD has laid for pc-bsd. The only thing that irked me was that they used the phrase "BSD-base distribution". *BSD is an OS, not a kernel with a bunch of stuff bolted on to it - heh. -pete --=20 pete wright www.nycbug.org
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