From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Mar 8 7:43:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from george.he.net (george.he.net [216.218.157.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEC1B37B719 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 07:43:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bill@wiliweld.com) Received: from corten8.wiliweld.com (adsl-63-193-247-201.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.247.201]) by george.he.net (8.8.6/8.8.2) with ESMTP id HAA15886; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 07:43:21 -0800 Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 07:40:40 -0800 (PST) From: Bill Schoolcraft X-Sender: To: Doug Young Cc: "Victor R. Cardona" , Subject: Re: About Unix (meeting someone's parents:) In-Reply-To: <01eb01c0a7b1$a6d4fc80$847e03cb@apana.org.au> Message-ID: System-ID: [en] (I; SunOS 5.8 i86pc) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At Thu, 8 Mar 2001 it looks like Doug Young composed: dougy->Probably the most negative experience I've had with linux was on a local dougy->mailing list belong dougy->"HUMBUG". The inhabitants there are generally so fanatic that any non-linux dougy->user stumbling dougy->into the group has to either swear undying allegiance to Linus or be forever dougy->damned :) dougy-> ........... I had felt the same when I first joined them. The funny thing about running other Unix distro's that were around BEFORE Linux is that once inside of either *BSD or Solaris etc, you seem to notice familiarities. That reminded "me" of meeting the parents of an old friend once, I immediately saw where this person got there hair color, attitude and stature. This is no different than Linux, which inherited a little of the Unix OS's before it. So when I hear Linux people say "BAH, Humbug" to Unix, I chuckle on the little bit of history they are missing out on. I have become a better Linux admin as a result of running *BSD, and Solaris, and using HP-UX at the local college. -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 -o) San Francisco CA 94121 /\ "UNIX, A Way Of Life." _\_v http://forwardslashunix.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message