Re: Re: CDROM-Artwork

2006-10-26 Thread peer . schaefer
Oh, please be careful! This stuff is not approved by the board and not "published" yet! We are still discussing the drafts. My postings are still "for review" only. At the moment the foundation is working out some legal issues regarding the used trademarks ("Athlon", "PowerPC", and such). Yes,

Why FreeBSD is good

2006-10-26 Thread Tim Clewlow
Hi, I am a fairly novice user, I have only been using FreeBSD for 2 and a bit years. I currently use it as a firewall/gateway for a lan, on which exist servers and desktop systems - all FreeBSD. It is this wide range of capabilities that make FreeBSD so good, ie it will quite happily be a firewal

Re: CDROM-Artwork

2006-10-26 Thread Ceri Davies
Thanks very much Peer, and apologies for both the run-around and for consistently spelling your name wrong. Deb, thanks for checking this out. www@, I need a decision on the CVS thing please. Ceri . On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 06:52:38AM +0200, Peer Schaefer wrote: > OK, here is the revised material

Re: CDROM-Artwork

2006-10-26 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
On 2006.10.26 23:33:58 +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: > Thanks very much Peer, and apologies for both the run-around and for > consistently spelling your name wrong. > > Deb, thanks for checking this out. > > www@, I need a decision on the CVS thing please. I think files > 1MB doesn't belong in CVS a

letter writing for FreeBSD support

2006-10-26 Thread Jim Stapleton
Hello, I've been talking with someone else here, and on a few other groups, and I'd like to try a letter writing campaign to Toshiba to try to get them to produce either open source drivers for the quirky parts of their notebooks, or if that is not possible, closed source drivers so that FreeBSD c

Re: Why FreeBSD Trolls Suck

2006-10-26 Thread FreeBSD Sucks
So I wanted to apologize for sending such an angry email to this list, especially without giving more detail as was mentioned in the Milo Hyson email response. I had spent some time not being able to use FreeBSD as a stable workstation because of hardware compatibility issues on a Gateway mach