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Date:      Sat, 23 Dec 2000 19:40:35 -0800
From:      "Jeremiah Gowdy" <jgowdy@home.com>
To:        "Rik van Riel" <riel@conectiva.com.br>, "Murray Stokely" <murray@osd.bsdi.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT
Message-ID:  <001d01c06d5b$475e7c80$aa240018@cx443070b>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012232136140.16178-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva>

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Rik van Riel" <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: "Murray Stokely" <murray@osd.bsdi.com>
Cc: <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2000 3:40 PM
Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT


> On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Murray Stokely wrote:
>
> >   I want to create a comprehensive body of knowledge that can
> > then be used to make fliers to hand out to Linux weenies at
>                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > trade shows, published on bsdi.com and/or freebsd.org, etc..
>
> Haha ;)
>
> With an attitude like that, you'd be hard-pressed to convert
> people to *BSD, which is a shame IMHO, because both *BSD and
> Linux have lots of good things to offer and (still) have some
> different strong and weak points...
>
> And since both systems are good and freely available with open
> development - but with a slightly different style - I think it
> would be better to try and get each user to use the system (s)he
> likes best, instead of discouraging people from finding the best
> free unix for their situation.

FreeBSD advocacy is prefectly alright.

And there's nothing wrong with calling them Linux weenies in FreeBSD circles
:)  I usually don't even say it that nicely when I'm referring to the more
rabid Linux "weenies":  "Linux is better than anything, it is the greatest
OS that ever lives, and it is faster than FreeBSD even though I have no
knowledge of any kind to support this.  Linus is my living deity and savior
and, in fact, he's Jesus reborn.  When judgement day comes, those who've
forsworn Linux will experience the hell-fire and damnnation that is OS/2
!!!!"

Those are the kind of Linux people I dislike.  Calmer people, rational
people, intelligent people, are often reasonable enough to simply be shown
FreeBSD, and they will comment on the merits of FreeBSD themselves.





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