Re: Time to kill FreeBSD as a Desktop

2007-03-30 Thread Freddie Cash
On Thursday 29 March 2007 04:49 pm, Rico Secada wrote: > On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:45:30 -0800 > Thats typical Ubuntu. Those problems doesn't exist on Debian. And no > "unofficial" repos are needed on Debian. Not quite true. deb http://ftp.debian-unofficial.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free re

Re: Time to kill FreeBSD as a Desktop

2007-03-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 11:46:34PM +0200, Rico Secada wrote: > Hi All. > > I have been using FreeBSD as a desktop system, on serveral computers for > about one and a half year now. I truly love FreeBSD! But keeping third party > ports/packages updated is just to timeconsuming IMHO. > > Building

Re: Time to kill FreeBSD as a Desktop

2007-03-29 Thread Rico Secada
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 01:05:45 +0100 RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:07:32 +0200 > Rico Secada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi All. > > > > I have been using FreeBSD as a desktop system, on serveral computers > > for about one and a half year now. I truly love FreeBSD! B

Re: Time to kill FreeBSD as a Desktop

2007-03-29 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 11:46:34PM +0200, Rico Secada wrote: > Hi All. > > I have been using FreeBSD as a desktop system, on serveral computers > for about one and a half year now. I truly love FreeBSD! But keeping > third party ports/packages updated is just to timeconsuming IMHO. > > Building e

Re: Time to kill FreeBSD as a Desktop

2007-03-29 Thread RW
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:07:32 +0200 Rico Secada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All. > > I have been using FreeBSD as a desktop system, on serveral computers > for about one and a half year now. I truly love FreeBSD! But keeping > third party ports/packages updated is just to timeconsuming IMHO.

Re: Time to kill FreeBSD as a Desktop

2007-03-29 Thread Uwe Grohnwaldt
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:46:34 +0200 Rico Secada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All. > > I have been using FreeBSD as a desktop system, on serveral computers > for about one and a half year now. I truly love FreeBSD! But keeping > third party ports/packages updated is just to timeconsuming IMHO. >

Re: Time to kill FreeBSD as a Desktop

2007-03-29 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 11:46:34PM +0200, Rico Secada wrote: > Hi All. > > I have been using FreeBSD as a desktop system, on serveral computers for > about one and a half year now. I truly love FreeBSD! But keeping third party > ports/packages updated is just to timeconsuming IMHO. > > Building

Re: Time to kill FreeBSD as a Desktop

2007-03-29 Thread Rico Secada
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:45:30 -0800 Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 11:46:34PM +0200, Rico Secada wrote: > > Hi All. > > > > I have been using FreeBSD as a desktop system, on serveral computers for > > about one and a half year now. I truly love FreeBSD! But keepin

Re: Re: Time to kill FreeBSD as a Desktop

2007-03-29 Thread Rico Secada
Begin forwarded message: Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:41:03 +0200 From: Rico Secada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Time to kill FreeBSD as a Desktop On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:26:03 -0500 Doug Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 a