Another reason to like FreeBSD

[Michael W. Holdeman]

I had FreeBSD 4.5 running on my laptop and dearly loved it. Wish I could go 
back!  Problem was there was not enough interest from BSD users to get 
Netraverse to port Win4Lin to BSD. 
Any progress on this? I have 2 legacy Windoze apps I must run, and Win4Lin is 
the only way to run them !

Mike


On Friday 02 May 2003 04:24 pm, clayton rollins wrote:
> >on Fri, 02 May 2003 11:15:14 Jesus Cash <jesuscash at cox.net> wrote:
> >
> >Also it seems lately tha the major distributions of Linux are full of
> >bloat, not getting to be much different than Windows. I have a P100 laptop
> >I use for writing and some times some Nintendo emulation. I tried loading
> >Red Hat 9 on it, stripping it down of course... But it wouldn't even let
> > me do that. Just flat out said no way, your system sucks.
> >
> >Where I work there's a group of people some of us call the Cult of Gentoo.
> >While one of them is just doing it to fit in (the guy can hardly tech
> >Windows, which is our job), they all talk about about Gentoo's ease of use
> >compared to the other distros and other *NIX kernels, their arguements
> >inevitably lead to Gentoo's "emerge" function. I keep telling them that
> >FreeBSD has two very similar systems of installing programs, and it does
> > it about the same, downloading dependencies automatically. Not too sure
> > if Gentoo patches itself either. Not to mention I didn't have to go
> > through some huge set-up to get FreeBSD running AND FreeBSD actually
> > detected my NIC, which Gentoo didn't. Another guy at work and I are just
> > getting into FreeBSD and already we've had less issues than the guys that
> > have been running Gentoo since they first put it out. One of these days
> > I'm gonna log into "The Cult's" computers and change their desktop
> > wallpapers to BSD centric images.
> >
> >Viva La Revolution! :P
> >
> >-B
> >
> >P.S.
> >I know there may still be some linux ethusists out there on this list,
> > this is nothing against you or Linux, it's against just some of the
> > kernel's followers. I'm sure there are some who can argue this better
> > than they can and beat me, but eh... I'm only defending my kernel of
> > choice from the uninformed. After all, despite "The Cult's" presence, I
> > still take all the Linux calls.
>
> (snip)
>
> If you want to be outright mean, try the logo from
> http://www.linuxisforbitches.com/ (a site devoted to poking fun at LUsers
> like your 'cult')
>
> Peace,
> Clayton
>
>
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Michael W. Holdeman

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