Re: What sort of market does FreeBSD provide ... ?

2006-07-23 Thread Darren
User Freebsd wrote: Who *big* recognizes FreeBSD as a viable operating system, at least openly? When PHK asked the FreeBSD community to donate USD16,500-33000 so he could spend 3-6 months working regular hours on FreeBSD, Pair Networks (pair.com) donated USD20,000. I don't know if that's "r

Re: What sort of market does FreeBSD provide ... ?

2006-07-23 Thread Darren
kevlar Hodge-Podge wrote: I just want to see if I understand the issue correctly. From what it sounds like there would need to both be a server for all the individual machines to connect to, and some sort of scripted client to capture info on the machine and send it to the server. When asking

Re: What sort of market does FreeBSD provide ... ?

2006-07-24 Thread Darren
Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote: Why not make it part of the installer? Present a screen at the end of the installation that briefly explains the idea, and then let the user chose to view the information about to be sent, refuse to send it or simply accept to send it. This of course requires the m

RE: is this your culture?

2005-05-09 Thread Darren Pilgrim
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." > -

RE: FreeBSD on IRC

2005-06-05 Thread Darren Pilgrim
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

RE: Fleas & Negative Review of FreeBSD 5.4

2005-06-14 Thread Darren Pilgrim
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

Re: FreeBSD Blog

2006-03-27 Thread Darren Pilgrim
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

Re: advocacy/97154: freebsd.org doesn't display well in Firefox 1.5.0.3

2006-05-11 Thread Darren Pilgrim
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

Re: freebsd-advocacy Digest, Vol 178, Issue 2 -- sysinstall vs BSD Installer

2007-02-17 Thread Darren Pilgrim
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

Re: What Linux^W distribution would you most like to see supported on a ThinkPad?

2007-09-12 Thread Darren Pilgrim
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. ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advoc

Re: [Laptop] Battery Time

2007-12-01 Thread Darren Pilgrim
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

Re: About FreeBSD.org visitors

2013-10-03 Thread Darren Pilgrim
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