Re: Providing a default graphical environment on FreeBSD

I spent years using Linux before I truly appreciated the key difference between a "desktop environment" and a "graphical environment". Probably because everyone had to have a desktop environment. I define graphical environment as simply X11 and a window manager. That's all you need to run Fire

Re: Question on io monitoring tools such as gstat and iostat

Thanks Andrey! Sent from my iPhone On Aug 28, 2012, at 1:42 PM, Andrey Zonov wrote: > On 8/28/12 3:14 PM, Andy Young wrote: >> I am relatively new to using IO monitoring tools and wanted to confirm I >> understand them correctly. If I specify an interval of 5 seconds, my >> assumption is that t

Re: Ways to promote FreeBSD?

> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 08:27:07PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >>> After using Linux for almost 15 years, I only recently started using >>> FreeBSD. I own an internet startup and was looking for a solution for >> >> Those who need FreeBSD already use it. no need to promote. Or maybe need

Re: Ways to promote FreeBSD?

> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 4/27/12 10:16 AM, Andy Young wrote: >> After using Linux for almost 15 years, I only recently started >> using FreeBSD. I own an internet startup and was looking for a >> solution for implementing large-scale storage servers. In my >> resea

Re: Ways to promote FreeBSD?

> Andy Young wrote: >> After using Linux for almost 15 years, I only recently started using >> FreeBSD. I own an internet startup and was looking for a solution for >> implementing large-scale storage servers. In my research I found ZFS and >> subsequently found FreeBSD. As I learned more about i