From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 1 18:58:45 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A36A16A4BF for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2003 18:58:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta7.adelphia.net (mta7.adelphia.net [68.168.78.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94C0143FDD for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2003 18:58:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com ([24.53.179.151]) by mta7.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.32 201-253-122-126-132-20030307) with ESMTP id <20030902014328.KLHE11935.mta7.adelphia.net@potentialtech.com>; Mon, 1 Sep 2003 21:43:28 -0400 Message-ID: <3F53F5BE.2010008@potentialtech.com> Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 21:43:26 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030429 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Randi Harper References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ugly Huge BSD Monster X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 01:58:45 -0000 Randi Harper wrote: > > Ya'll do realize that this is a pointless conversation that has taken > place many times before, right? You do realize this is chat@, right? > I understand if it's all for fun and just for the sake of arguing, but > no one is ever going to agree or concede to anyone else's point. This is > about as fruitless as the 'which OS is best?' question. Personally, I think Multics is best, and I defy anyone to argue that point. > FreeBSD can be a fabulous desktop _if you know how to use it as such_. > FreeBSD can be a fabulous server as well, _if you know how to use it as > such_. My toaster could be a fabulous server if I could just figure out > how to make ipf filter out forks and spoons and only allow in bagels. See ... I like an occasional English Muffin, myself, and that complicates the ipf rules a bit. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com