Re: Should I switch? [was Re: A novel idea....]

2001-04-05 Thread John Summerfield
> > 7. FreeBSD is developed very rapidly. Especially if you subscribe to > mailing lists, you can see bugs fixed almost as soon as they are > mentioned. New features are added more conservatively, however. New > stuff is tried out in -CURRENT, where the heavy-duty FreeBSD hackers > make it stabl

Re: Should I switch? [was Re: A novel idea....]

2001-04-04 Thread Spike Gronim
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 05:46:01PM -0700, Jason Victor wrote: > Wow, thanks alot for all your advice. I just have a > couple (read: 412) questions about switching to > FreeBSD (if I should do it.) Please keep in mind that > I am a hobbyist developer, but am looking to get > better. > > 1. Can I w

Re: Should I switch? [was Re: A novel idea....]

2001-04-04 Thread Andrew Hesford
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 05:46:01PM -0700, Jason Victor wrote: > Wow, thanks alot for all your advice. I just have a > couple (read: 412) questions about switching to > FreeBSD (if I should do it.) Please keep in mind that > I am a hobbyist developer, but am looking to get > better. > > 1. Can I w

Should I switch? [was Re: A novel idea....]

2001-04-04 Thread Jason Victor
Wow, thanks alot for all your advice. I just have a couple (read: 412) questions about switching to FreeBSD (if I should do it.) Please keep in mind that I am a hobbyist developer, but am looking to get better. 1. Can I work on the GNOME project under FreeBSD? Does anyone have Ximian GNOME runnin