Re: LinuxBSDos.com article

2010-02-18 Thread Jayton Garnett
That's a fair enough comment really. To the average PC user, yes it is going to be the only one to compete with Ubuntu - unsuccessfully. To the higher life forms - e.g. uber g33ks like us, no. Although when I tried it out, I did quite enjoy the experience of PCBSD. The keywords there is 'desktop

Re: LinuxBSDos.com article

2010-02-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18/02/2010 10:20, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:06:32 -0800, Charlie Kester corky1...@comcast.net wrote: http://linuxbsdos.com/2010/02/18/pc-bsds-graphical-firewall-manager/ PC-BSD is ... the only BSD-based distribution

Re: LinuxBSDos.com article

2010-02-18 Thread John Murphy
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:13:06 +0100, Max Laier wrote: On Thursday 18 February 2010 13:56:25 John Murphy wrote: On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:16:12 +, Jayton Garnett wrote: FreeBSD is more of a What-ever-you-want distro, ... What-ever-you-want-except-midi distro. Or has that changed now?

Re: LinuxBSDos.com article

2010-02-18 Thread Stephen Hurd
Matthew Seaman wrote: Saying there's this really great firewall on PC-BSD, but the configuration app doesn't let you use it very well doesn't really strike me as a positive statement about PC-BSD. Perhaps there's an I know what I'm doing button somewhere yet to be mentioned which enables

Re: LinuxBSDos.com article

2010-02-18 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Stephen Hurd wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: Saying there's this really great firewall on PC-BSD, but the configuration app doesn't let you use it very well doesn't really strike me as a positive statement about PC-BSD. Perhaps there's an I know what I'm doing button somewhere yet to be mentioned

Re: LinuxBSDos.com article

2010-02-18 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Stephen Hurd sh...@sasktel.net writes: John Murphy fbs...@freeode.co.uk writes: Jayton Garnett jayton.garn...@gmail.com writes: FreeBSD is more of a What-ever-you-want distro, ... What-ever-you-want-except-midi distro. Or has that changed now? You mean driving MIDI hardware or the ability

Re: LinuxBSDos.com article

2010-02-18 Thread Brett Glass
At 03:06 AM 2/18/2010, Charlie Kester wrote: http://linuxbsdos.com/2010/02/18/pc-bsds-graphical-firewall-manager/ PC-BSD is ... the only BSD-based distribution that’s in a position to compete with the best Linux desktop distributions... Wish it were fully BSD-based! Alas, it uses a GPLed

Re: LinuxBSDos.com article

2010-02-18 Thread Lars Engels
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:24:44AM -0700, Brett Glass wrote: At 03:06 AM 2/18/2010, Charlie Kester wrote: http://linuxbsdos.com/2010/02/18/pc-bsds-graphical-firewall-manager/ PC-BSD is ... the only BSD-based distribution that’s in a position to compete with the best Linux desktop

Re: LinuxBSDos.com article

2010-02-18 Thread Stephen Hurd
That's like saying Why bother with TCP/IP when I have PCIe? MIDI is a protocol and the support that's (apparently) missing is the ability to speak this protocol to devices which use it (such as drum sets) over a port which exists soley to transmit this protocol (the MIDI/Game port on your sound

Re: LinuxBSDos.com article

2010-02-18 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Stephen Hurd hu...@sasktel.net writes: The decision to not support it would be (was?) like deciding to not support firewire... Like Apple just did? :P DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - d...@des.no ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: LinuxBSDos.com article

2010-02-18 Thread Stephen Hurd
Oh? Firewire can't be used with new versions of OS/X? I thought they simply wern't integrating it in their systems but that it could be added. - Original Message - From: Dag-Erling Smørgrav d...@des.no Date: Thursday, February 18, 2010 11:27 am Subject: Re: LinuxBSDos.com article

Re: LinuxBSDos.com article

2010-02-18 Thread pete wright
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Charlie Kester corky1...@comcast.net wrote: On Thu 18 Feb 2010 at 02:20:25 PST Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:06:32 -0800, Charlie Kester corky1...@comcast.net wrote: http://linuxbsdos.com/2010/02/18/pc-bsds-graphical-firewall-manager/

Re: LinuxBSDos.com article

2010-02-18 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, John Murphy wrote: On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:16:12 +, Jayton Garnett wrote: FreeBSD is more of a What-ever-you-want distro, ... What-ever-you-want-except-midi distro. Or has that changed now? So it is no longer a What-ever-you-want-except-flash distro? -- John.

Re: LinuxBSDos.com article

2010-02-18 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Stephen Hurd wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: Saying there's this really great firewall on PC-BSD, but the configuration app doesn't let you use it very well doesn't really strike me as a positive statement about PC-BSD. Perhaps there's an I know what

Re: LinuxBSDos.com article

2010-02-18 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Jayton Garnett wrote: Why would I be bothered about MIDI? I've got an on-board sound card that has, get this, 5.1 Surround Sound. 5.1 surround sound, can you ruddy well believe it? Come on, it's 2010, not 1985! Get with the times. Most content will be streamed online