On Wednesday 14 March 2007 13:26, Jeff Rollin wrote:
On 14/03/07, Eric Kjeldergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
drivers.) For those of us using FreeBSD, there's not a substantial
advantage to proprietary linux drivers over proprietary Windows drivers.
We
go unsupported either way.
Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
From the choices available Ubuntu is the only one developed and
maintained by individuals with no commercial backing.
Ubuntu is developed and maintained by Canonical Ltd. (see
http://www.canonical.com/projects/ubuntu).
DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav -
--- Peter A. Giessel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dell is actually asking what Linux Distro to install, but if enough of us
ask for preinstalled FreeBSD, it might get them thinking about FreeBSD and
looking into providing support and especially drivers in the future.
It can't hurt anyway :)
On 3/14/07, Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
From the choices available Ubuntu is the only one developed and
maintained by individuals with no commercial backing.
Ubuntu is developed and maintained by Canonical Ltd. (see
Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
From the choices available Ubuntu is the only one developed and
maintained by individuals with no commercial backing.
Ubuntu is developed and maintained by
On 3/14/07, Tim Clewlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Peter A. Giessel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dell is actually asking what Linux Distro to install, but if enough of us
ask for preinstalled FreeBSD, it might get them thinking about FreeBSD and
looking into providing support and especially
On 3/14/07, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wrong time wrong place. Not voting for Ubuntu/Debian is the same as
voting against it. In this respect it can hurt us very much. Why throw
away your vote when you could vote for a group with the same
philosophical and political views as us?
On 14/03/07, Andrew Pantyukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 3/14/07, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wrong time wrong place. Not voting for Ubuntu/Debian is the same as
voting against it. In this respect it can hurt us very much. Why throw
away your vote when you could vote for a
Nikolas Britton wrote:
[ snip ]
You need to realize that the
survey statistician is going to throw out the votes for FreeBSD.
probably true.
it is well known that
surveys can be intentionally constructed to produce
results that confirm the survey company's client's desired
On 14/03/07, Eric Kjeldergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
drivers.) For those of us using FreeBSD, there's not a substantial
advantage to proprietary linux drivers over proprietary Windows drivers. We
go unsupported either way.
Hmm, well I would hope that they would use hardware with open
--- Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 14/03/07, Eric Kjeldergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
drivers.) For those of us using FreeBSD, there's not a substantial
advantage to proprietary linux drivers over proprietary Windows drivers.
We
go unsupported either way.
Hmm, well I
On 3/14/07, Tim Clewlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 14/03/07, Eric Kjeldergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
drivers.) For those of us using FreeBSD, there's not a substantial
advantage to proprietary linux drivers over proprietary Windows drivers.
Dell is actually asking what Linux Distro to install, but if enough of us
ask for preinstalled FreeBSD, it might get them thinking about FreeBSD and
looking into providing support and especially drivers in the future.
It can't hurt anyway :)
http://www.dell.com/linuxsurvey
P.S., feel free to CC
Sorry for the top-posting, but only one to was added, and wasn't this list.
2007/3/13, Peter A. Giessel [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Dell is actually asking what Linux Distro to install, but if enough of us
ask for preinstalled FreeBSD, it might get them thinking about FreeBSD and
looking into providing
On 3/13/07, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 3/13/07, Julian Stacey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2007/3/13, Peter A. Giessel [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Dell is actually asking what Linux Distro to install, but if enough of us
ask for preinstalled FreeBSD, it might get them thinking about
On 3/13/07, Julian Stacey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2007/3/13, Peter A. Giessel [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Dell is actually asking what Linux Distro to install, but if enough of us
ask for preinstalled FreeBSD, it might get them thinking about FreeBSD and
looking into providing support and
I was under the impression that of the Linuces out there, Slackware was most
BSD-ish? How is Debian like BSD?
WMM
On 3/13/07, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 3/13/07, Julian Stacey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2007/3/13, Peter A. Giessel [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Dell is actually asking
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