On 10/3/2013 8:14 AM, Eitan Adler wrote:
Here is an overview of the people that visit FreeBSD.org:
http://people.freebsd.org/~eadler/files/Report-10.01.pdf
Some takeaways:
- More than half (60%) the people that come to our website leave
without going to another page (called 'bouncing'). Howeve
Jessica Mahoney wrote:
Quick recap:
Windows Vista: 2 minute boot, 90 minutes of battery
What tuning did you do on Vista prior to your measurements? A
stock Vista install never actually goes idle, so it eats the
battery life.
With FreeBSD if you run X with an alpha-blending WM and a
backgr
Larry Rosenman wrote:
I always take "Linux" as a proxy for "Open-Source OS" in these type
of polls.
Linux: The xerox of the open-source OS community.
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james r relyea wrote:
i would appreciate a new freebsd loading scheme more than a replacement
loader. the main annoyance to me is the requirement that freebsd be
loaded in a primary partition. i am not familiar with the structure of
the freebsd partition or what necessitates use of a primary pa
Vanja wrote:
I'm using 1.5.0.3 on 6.1-release, and everything seems to be fine at
www.freebsd.org... Could You be more specific about "displays faulty"?
I don't know about the OP, but for me, running Firefox 1.5.0.3 and
Internet Explorer 6.0, there are multiple elements which don't size
corre
Timothy Watt wrote:
Not sure if this is the correct mailing list to post this
announcement, hopefully it is, or someone can point me to the correct
one! I recently created a blog where I will be describing my
experiences with FreeBSD and hope that it will prove useful to other
FreeBSD users, or
From: M. Goodell
>
> Would you perhaps like to point out for me a flavor of Linux
> that is free of *little problems*? I'd love to see it and use
> it. I don't think you or anyone else can do that. The fact is
> that trading one OS for another is trading one set of *little
> problems* for anot
From: Chris
> While it's true anyone can flame anybody - we in the channel do have
> some easy things to follow before asking. In the topic it refers to
> seeking the Handbook, /usr/ports/updating & /usr/src/updating.
>
> Many users after reading such topics generally find that it's not much
> to
My comments are inline to make it a bit easier to see which point I'm
addressing.
Jeppe W. Larsen wrote:
>
> -If you want to be seen and get status, you have to show what you are
> good at
I think a better way of putting it would be, "you have to make valuable
contributions to the project."
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