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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



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pete wright
www.nycbug.org



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