RE: Explaining FreeBSD features

2005-06-21 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Fafa Hafiz >Krantz >Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 12:56 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Explaining FreeBSD features > > > >Hello. > >Thank you all for everything so far. > >But I am

RE: Explaining FreeBSD features

2005-06-21 Thread Warren Smith
Ted Mittelstaedt said: > FreeBSD is targeted at 2 main groups of people: > > 1) Very knowledgeable people who are using it for personal, or > in-house corporate projects. > > 2) Very knowledgeable people who are using it to construct > turnkey systems for customers who couldn't care less what is >

RE: SPAM: Score 2.0: RE: Explaining FreeBSD features

2005-06-21 Thread Johnson David
From: Ted Mittelstaedt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You see, the problem is that FreeBSD is not a general computer > operating system product. It is a very specific product in fact. I have to take exception to this, and your amplification of it later on. FreeBSD is a very general operating syste

Re: Explaining FreeBSD features

2005-06-21 Thread Liam J. Foy
> Fafa, I've seen these kinds of efforts before and they are all > generally doomed to failure. > > You see, the problem is that FreeBSD is not a general computer > operating system product. It is a very specific product in fact. > > Now, the USES that FreeBSD can be put to are VERY general. BU

Re: Explaining FreeBSD features

2005-06-21 Thread Liam J. Foy
On Mon(20)/Jun/05 - , Fafa Hafiz Krantz wrote: > > Hello. > > I am curious why it's so difficult to get a simple and straight > forward list of FreeBSD's features, that normal people can understand? > > I am trying to write one of the largest articles ever to be published > on www.PCWorld.no --

RE: Explaining FreeBSD features

2005-06-21 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
>-Original Message- >From: Liam J. Foy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 10:38 AM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: Fafa Hafiz Krantz; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Explaining FreeBSD features > > >> Fafa, I've seen these kinds of efforts before and they are all >> genera

Re: Explaining FreeBSD features

2005-06-21 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Let's say this: Multi-threaded SMP architecture capable of executing the kernel in parallel on multiple processors, and with kernel preemption, allowing high priority kernel tasks to preempt other kernel activity, reducing latency. This includes a multi-threade

Re: Explaining FreeBSD features

2005-06-21 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 01:05:32 -0700 "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >-Original Message- > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Fafa Hafiz > >Krantz > >Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 12:56 PM > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject

Re: Explaining FreeBSD features

2005-06-21 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Vulpes Velox wrote: Ignorant useless users should be supported by commercial ventures, not community ones. They will just drag the community down with their weight if they don't help out. This would be the real tough one. There should also be a way to write some kind of descripton for th

RE: Explaining FreeBSD features

2005-06-21 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
>-Original Message- >From: Warren Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 10:17 AM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: Fafa Hafiz Krantz; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: Explaining FreeBSD features > > >Ted Mittelstaedt said: >> FreeBSD is targeted at 2 main groups of people: