Re: Time to kill FreeBSD as a Desktop

2007-03-30 Thread Freddie Cash
On Thursday 29 March 2007 04:49 pm, Rico Secada wrote: On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:45:30 -0800 Thats typical Ubuntu. Those problems doesn't exist on Debian. And no unofficial repos are needed on Debian. Not quite true. deb http://ftp.debian-unofficial.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free

Re: Re: Time to kill FreeBSD as a Desktop

2007-03-29 Thread Rico Secada
Begin forwarded message: Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:41:03 +0200 From: Rico Secada [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Time to kill FreeBSD as a Desktop On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:26:03 -0500 Doug Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 11:46:34PM +0200, Rico

Re: Time to kill FreeBSD as a Desktop

2007-03-29 Thread Rico Secada
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:45:30 -0800 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 11:46:34PM +0200, Rico Secada wrote: Hi All. I have been using FreeBSD as a desktop system, on serveral computers for about one and a half year now. I truly love FreeBSD! But keeping third

Re: Fw: Time to kill FreeBSD as a Desktop

2007-03-29 Thread Danny Pansters
On Friday 30 March 2007 00:07:32 Rico Secada wrote: Hi All. I have been using FreeBSD as a desktop system, on serveral computers for about one and a half year now. I truly love FreeBSD! But keeping third party ports/packages updated is just to timeconsuming IMHO. First important thing is

Re: Time to kill FreeBSD as a Desktop

2007-03-29 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 11:46:34PM +0200, Rico Secada wrote: Hi All. I have been using FreeBSD as a desktop system, on serveral computers for about one and a half year now. I truly love FreeBSD! But keeping third party ports/packages updated is just to timeconsuming IMHO. Building

Re: Time to kill FreeBSD as a Desktop

2007-03-29 Thread Uwe Grohnwaldt
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:46:34 +0200 Rico Secada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All. I have been using FreeBSD as a desktop system, on serveral computers for about one and a half year now. I truly love FreeBSD! But keeping third party ports/packages updated is just to timeconsuming IMHO.

Re: Time to kill FreeBSD as a Desktop

2007-03-29 Thread RW
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:07:32 +0200 Rico Secada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All. I have been using FreeBSD as a desktop system, on serveral computers for about one and a half year now. I truly love FreeBSD! But keeping third party ports/packages updated is just to timeconsuming IMHO. Why do

Re: Fw: Time to kill FreeBSD as a Desktop

2007-03-29 Thread Frank Mayhar
On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 00:07 +0200, Rico Secada wrote: Hi All. I have been using FreeBSD as a desktop system, on serveral computers for about one and a half year now. I truly love FreeBSD! But keeping third party ports/packages updated is just to timeconsuming IMHO. Building everything

Re: Time to kill FreeBSD as a Desktop

2007-03-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 11:46:34PM +0200, Rico Secada wrote: Hi All. I have been using FreeBSD as a desktop system, on serveral computers for about one and a half year now. I truly love FreeBSD! But keeping third party ports/packages updated is just to timeconsuming IMHO. Building