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Date:      Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:21:31 -0700
From:      Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors
Message-ID:  <20081215022131.GB5527@kokopelli.hydra>
In-Reply-To: <1229218767.18610.39.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au>
References:  <20081207093713.O5433@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081211203121.L1372@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081211195504.GA15968@kokopelli.hydra> <200812111447.15299.perlcat@alltel.net> <1229218767.18610.39.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au>

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On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 11:39:26AM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
>=20
> Hence why I tend to send really green unix newbies to linux school than
> grind their teeth on FreeBSD straight up. Let em get their skills and
> experience in how *nix in general works on something a little easier
> (for MIB lovers: noisy cricket), then move up to the big guns.

Why not send them to something like DesktopBSD or PC-BSD, or even
FreeSBIE (if that project is still around)?  If they go to some chintzy
user-obsequious Linux distribution like PCLinuxOS first, they'll just
have more stuff to unlearn *if* it ever occurs to them to give some BSD
Unix variant a try -- and if they haven't been poisoned against BSD Unix
systems by GNU/FSF propaganda in the meantime.

--=20
Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
Quoth Edward Murphy, Jr. (Murphy's Law): "If there's more than one way
to do a job and one of those ways will end in disaster, then someone
will do it that way."

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