Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html

2011-09-17 Thread Chris Brennan
but needs some more people involved. -- Chris Brennan A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ | http://xkcd.com/549/ GPG: D5B20C0C (6741 8EE4 6C7D 11FB 8DA8 9E4A EECD

Re: Need a README to explain items in download directory

2011-09-03 Thread Chris Brennan
questions. -- Chris Brennan -- A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ | http://xkcd.com/549/ GPG: D5B20C0C (6741 8EE4 6C7D 11FB 8DA8 9E4A EECD 9A84 D5B2 0C0C

Re: Need a README to explain items in download directory

2011-09-03 Thread Chris Brennan
wouldn't choose either of these, but that's just a preference, I like neither of them as a project. FreeBSD, Debian or Gentoo would be my choices. -- Chris Brennan -- A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? http

Re: Need a README to explain items in download directory

2011-09-03 Thread Chris Brennan
. If such a README is to be implemented, I could find myself writing some correct descriptions ... perhaps a pr is in order? -- Chris Brennan -- A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html

2011-08-31 Thread Chris Brennan
On 8/31/2011 8:07 AM, Martin Sugioarto wrote: Am Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:34:54 -0400 schrieb Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net: the object is to show people *WHY* FreeBSD is a sound (and valid) choice against the competition, we can't just claim we're better because we know we are, we have

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html

2011-08-31 Thread Chris Brennan
) to other contemporary OSes. It should be noted on the FreeBSD side of the comparison, whom has borrowed concepts from FreeBSD, such as the network stack or Gentoo's Portage system (just to name a few that come to mind.) -- Chris Brennan -- A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html

2011-08-30 Thread Chris Brennan
* FreeBSD is a sound (and valid) choice against the competition, we can't just claim we're better because we know we are, we have to provide a convincing argument that is true and honest fact. -- Chris Brennan -- A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html

2011-08-30 Thread Chris Brennan
On 8/30/2011 12:21 PM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: On 08/30/2011 06:34 PM, Chris Brennan wrote: But this comparison can't be trivial, it has to be genuine, authentic, (peer reviewed across the board if possible), backed up by fact (links back to other reputable sources). In short, it's

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html

2011-08-30 Thread Chris Brennan
definition is not meant to provide any form of clearly defined values to any one OS but to illustrate hypothetical examples. [2] I repeatedly defined this discussion as project because I couldn't think of a different term to use that would aptly and/or correctly describe this discussion. -- Chris Brennan

Re: FreeBSD-9.0-BETA1-i386-bootonly

2011-08-10 Thread Chris Brennan
didn't make it to the list, can you upload it and provide us with a link to it instead? -- Chris Brennan -- A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ | http://xkcd.com

Re: console freeze after ifconfig wlan0 scan with wi(4) pccard device

2011-01-13 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.ukwrote: but still can't connect to the gateway: PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1): 56 data bytes ping: sendto: No route to host ping: sendto: No route to host ping: sendto: No route to host ^C --- 192.168.1.1 ping

Re: why panic(9) ?

2011-01-12 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: On 12/01/2011 16:23, Erik wrote: On one of my first linux desktops, I had a screensaver which displayed rotated dumpscreens of all kinds of different Operation systems. Apple, Basic, linux and BSOD..

Re: lockup with vidcontrol VESA_800x600

2011-01-09 Thread Chris Brennan
Did you try http://www.freebsdwiki.net/index.php/High_Resolution_Console? -- Sent from my Droid On Jan 9, 2011 6:58 AM, Marc UBM Bocklet ubm.free...@googlemail.com wrote: Hiho! :-) Yesterday I upgraded to FreeBSD hostname 9.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #28: Sat Jan 8 17:05:30 CET 2011

Re: lockup with vidcontrol VESA_800x600

2011-01-09 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Marc UBM Bocklet ubm.free...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sun, 9 Jan 2011 11:45:52 -0500 Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: Did you try http://www.freebsdwiki.net/index.php/High_Resolution_Console? Yeah, those are the kernel settings that I've been