"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 anyw
Greetings all,
I have been known to give new life to Dell Customers, after migrating thier
old W2K servers to FreeBSD, with Samba, this makes a fine File Server with
execellent Security.
Dell PowerEdge 1500SC,
Intel Pentium III 1.2GHz, Tualatin 512 L2 cache, Intel Mainboard P2300,
512MB R
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
http://www
"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
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 espe
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? Y
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
On 14/03/07, Jeff Rollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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 ver
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 outco
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 s
On 3/14/07, 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,
--- Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
--- 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.
> >
>
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
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:50:22 -0500
"Nikolas Britton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
Hello,
The discussion on Dell's survery about pre-installing a Linux distro has made
me think of a slightly different approach. Rather than being prompted by things
like a survey, maybe we should be more pro-active.
Are there any groups in the FreeBSD community actively going to manufacturers
and
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