Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 11:05:51 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Robert Clark <res03db2@gte.net> Cc: Don Wilde <Don@Silver-Lynx.com>, Gilbert Gong <ggong@cal.alumni.berkeley.edu>, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD, .Net comments - any reponse to this reasoning? Message-ID: <20010711110551.C93534@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <20010710220538.D24198@darkstar.gte.net>; from res03db2@gte.net on Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 10:05:38PM -0700 References: <001401c1039e$b0327f20$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <001301c103ab$928400e0$2a5fa640@ggongw2k> <3B41D337.964D3C1A@Silver-Lynx.com> <20010710220538.D24198@darkstar.gte.net>
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Robert Clark said on Jul 10, 2001 at 22:05:38: > > Would people have an easier time fitting their minds around the > concepts inherent in FreeBSD, if Berkely/UC/California wasn't > such a big part of the name. > > Maybe having lived in CA during the Regan era has something to > do with it for me, but BSD makes a mental image as solid as a > cinder block, and just about as sexy. I know at least one person who knew nothing of BSD but was impressed by the Berkeley connection. His main Sun hard drive had died, and though the other drive was working, he couldn't boot the machine. I installed NetBSD on the other drive, and even got his Sun binaries (like Mathematica) to work again (with a bit of help from the NetBSD lists). On seeing the boot-up messages he said "Oh, this stuff was done at Berkeley?" So I gave a short history of BSD. He was more than happy with the performance: he thought it felt faster than his old SunOS. (This was an ancient machine which was probably slower than a 486, but it worked and it had a nice monitor, so he didn't want to get rid of it.) R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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