From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Oct 29 1:25:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx-a.qnet.com (mx-a.qnet.com [209.221.198.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59B7F37B479 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 01:25:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cello.qnet.com (root@cello.qnet.com [209.221.198.10]) by mx-a.qnet.com (8.9.1a/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA04535; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 01:25:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from STORK (56k-socal-01-39.dial.qnet.com [209.221.198.102]) by cello.qnet.com (8.9.0/8.9.1) with SMTP id BAA10998; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 01:25:27 -0700 (PDT) From: "Heredity Choice" To: "James A Wilde" , "Zaitsau, Andrei" Cc: Subject: RE: FW: My Experience With FreeBSD Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 01:16:56 -0700 Message-ID: <000001c04180$9a132860$66c6ddd1@STORK> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.5600 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > The UNIX community, let's admit it, has fostered an air of mystique and > complexity since time began. When it was DOS and UNIX unix had > ls, cp, mv, > rm and DOS had dir, copy, move and del. UNIX had clear and DOS had cls. > Within the last two days I have seen comments - in -questions, I think - > speaking denigratingly of cluttered KDE and Gnome windows. Out > there in the > real world, clutered windows are the thing. In here, computer > internals are > fun and the cli is the thing. Windows are for wimps. I had no use for a GUI until web browsers appeared. Lynx is not my favorite. Paul Smith To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message