From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Jul 10 13: 4:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0221937B401 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 13:04:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.46.72]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA3470; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 13:11:11 -0700 Message-ID: <3B4B5FD9.2C51208D@acuson.com> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 13:04:41 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Karin Lagesen Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Questions References: <3B4A00A6.E463FD36@acuson.com> <86pub9y6mh.fsf@hades.hell.gr> <20010710090507.E5145@miranda.mbl.uib.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Karin Lagesen wrote: > I once heard this explanation of the difference between BSD and linux users; > Linux is for the ones that hate Windows, BSD is for the ones that like unix. > Maybe a bit too prejudice, but in my experience basically true...:) It isn't true. The vast majority of Linux users use it because it's Linux, not because it isn't Windows. Unfortunately, the small minority the uses Linux only because they hate Windows tend to have the loudest and shrillest voices. If all you know of the Linux community is what you read on Slashdot, you could very well get that impression. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message