Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on August 10, 2004 04:59 PM
The point you are missing is that these things DO work in DragonFly BSD and the author was too busy doing other things to research on how this is accomplished, which one must do before taking on any endeavor, especially when you are relied upon for factual information on a given topic. He has not provided that information, and that is what is annoying.
Additionally, people seem to miss this point and then make statements like yours: ``the article writer points out that somet hings didn't work'': they DO WORK. They didn't work the way he did them. Since you seem to be fond of analogies, I'll give a good one here.
Imagine that you get on a bicycle and try to ride it. You fall off and break your leg. Now, your story is that the bicycle suddenly stopped and you flew off, hence the bicycle is broken. However, the truth of the matter is, you're used to hand brakes instead of pedal brakes. The bicycle works fine, you simply didn't learn how to use it properly.
DragonFly BSD is not a preview. We have a release and it works well (it has for me and numerous others). It is indeed still under development, but so is Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, or almost any other OS you may choose to use.
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Re:The Jem Matzan review
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on August 10, 2004 04:59 PMAdditionally, people seem to miss this point and then make statements like yours: ``the article writer points out that somet hings didn't work'': they DO WORK. They didn't work the way he did them. Since you seem to be fond of analogies, I'll give a good one here.
Imagine that you get on a bicycle and try to ride it. You fall off and break your leg. Now, your story is that the bicycle suddenly stopped and you flew off, hence the bicycle is broken. However, the truth of the matter is, you're used to hand brakes instead of pedal brakes. The bicycle works fine, you simply didn't learn how to use it properly.
DragonFly BSD is not a preview. We have a release and it works well (it has for me and numerous others). It is indeed still under development, but so is Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, or almost any other OS you may choose to use.
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