Hello

[Deekin Scalesinger]

Hello All:

This is my first post as well to this group, but Xinizul makes a point
which I also would like to echo. A bittorrent of the distros seems to
me to go along with the community nature of FreeBSD and I am sure
would help to cut down on the bandwidth costs for our current
suppliers of ISOs. I am also fairly certain that this is not the
proper forum to bring up this topic, but I have been lurking for a
while on this list and had nary a worthwhile comment to make until now
:) - if there is a bittorrent of this already amd I am ignorant of the
fact, would someone be kind enough to point it out to me? Thank you!


On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 21:20:50 +0100, Xinizul Xinizul <xinizul at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all:
> 
> Just to make happy our forum leader ;-) I'm going to post my feelings
> about FreeBSD as a beginner:
> 
> I'm soiftware developer new to FreeBSD (but not new to Linux for instance).
> 
> I decide to install FreeBSD 5.2.1 because I want to install definetely
> something stable and .... free of course
> 
> I don't understand people going into Linux because they want a free
> distro and then installs something like SUSE, Mandrake or RedHat.
> 
> Well in fact I'm waitin for release 5.3 to appear to install
> definetely FreeBSD and start to building my own work station and
> services for fun.
> 
> One of the things I more like about this distro is:
> 
> 1) Support for hardware is good: It detect my SATA hardrive (SUSE 9.0
> didn't a month ago) but must improve (it didn't detect my ASUS
> WIFI at home card :-( ... but I'm waitin for 5.3 and its Project Evil to
> see how it imports Windows Drivers !!!
> 
> 2) Excellent the "Handbook": Really really good , ideal for beginners.
> 
> 3) Easy Setup -except for the partition configuration that still it is
> a bit confusing-
> 
> 4) Linux compatibility support must improve since I've tried to
> compile some dirver (yes for my WIFI  card) using the sourcecode tar
> provided by the manufacturer but didin't work (well in fact this is a
> problem of the manufacturer for not having into account FreeBSD users
> : http://www.ralinktech.com.tw)
> 
> 5) I like the community, I think it is well organized through the port
> mechanism.
> 
> 6) Nice Logo of course
> 
> Interesting Spanish forums and FTP sites.
> 
> One request if possible ... it would like if FreeBSD site could use
> bittorrent to post the releases ... very useful when downloading the
> large ISO images.
> 
> That's all my post, cheers to all.
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