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The Jem Matzan review

Posted by: dross on August 10, 2004 02:15 PM
See The Jem Matzan review - release 1 @

http://reviews.b0x.com/

The Jem Matzan review - release 1

Do not waste your time on reading JemReports
Incomplete reviews
reviews that are false
not organized at all

I do not recommend any report from http://www.thejemreport.com/ anymore. Jem is very rude, inconsiderate, and will not read the dragonfly webpage. Hence, I will let other people know of how Jem acts. Just ignore the gem reports from now on. The reviews are incomplete. There are better places around the internet to look, mainly be investigating it yourself if you want a real review.

I am pretty sure there have been other reviews that were false besides the reviews on BSD systems.

read mailing lists
join on IRC channels (mainly on irc.freenode.net and irc.efnet.net)
try the software fully and get a few years experience before giving a decision

Q: my attacking him?
A: No. Jem is the attacker. A direct attack by beig ignorant of the help that the DragonFlyBSD people get
His work is biased, they are not really too much reviews.

I will discuss this further right now.
1. Jem does not get deep in to any review.
Okay, so far from any review Jem has written I am seeing a lack of usage, user interaction, and reading of mailing list. This is a big let-down in the Jemreports. I think that someone should get a real commercial team of reviews who use all areas of software without being biased.

2. Jem was very rude in emails
okay, I tried explaining nicely, then Jem boasted on and on about how it was a job

3. They guy even insults people on his forum (see below)

The DragonFlyBSD-1.0A was moot<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.Jems problems with DragonFlyBSD<nobr> <wbr></nobr>..Could not get SMP to work
If Jem bothered to read the mailing list, Jem would have found a fix. Just disable the serial console

The port for the X window server would not compiler
If Jem bothered reading the mailing list, Jem would have found an answer.
DragonFlyBSD does *not* maintain the ports system. The ports system used is the FreeBSD port system

Final words

There are plenty of good news sites out there. You just have to watch what you read.
Just make sure to watch out for anything that is linked to http://www.thejemreport.com/ Most of the editorials are FUD.

This makes me think, "How many people were given a false image on his other reviews?"

David Ross

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