From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Mar 8 8:59:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from femail17.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail17.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE83B37B734 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 08:59:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vcardona@home.com) Received: from marx.marvic.chum ([24.17.229.11]) by femail17.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20010308165949.VUCY616.femail17.sdc1.sfba.home.com@marx.marvic.chum>; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 08:59:49 -0800 Received: (from vcardona@localhost) by marx.marvic.chum (8.11.2/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) id f28H0xh08966; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 11:00:59 -0600 Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 11:00:59 -0600 From: "Victor R. Cardona" To: Doug Young Cc: "Victor R. Cardona" , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: About Unix Message-ID: <20010308110059.A8865@marx.marvic.chum> Mail-Followup-To: Doug Young , "Victor R. Cardona" , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG References: <01030800251100.00557@r55h47.res.gatech.edu> <00f901c0a794$0b2a64e0$847e03cb@apana.org.au> <20010308015238.A6647@marx.marvic.chum> <01b401c0a7a6$3927e720$847e03cb@apana.org.au> <20010308031635 <01eb01c0a7b1$a6d4fc80$847e03cb@apana.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: <01eb01c0a7b1$a6d4fc80$847e03cb@apana.org.au>; from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au on Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 07:24:56PM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 07:24:56PM +1000, Doug Young wrote: > Probably the most negative experience I've had with linux was on a local > mailing list belong > "HUMBUG". The inhabitants there are generally so fanatic that any non-linux > user stumbling > into the group has to either swear undying allegiance to Linus or be forever > damned :) I think it depends on which distribution you use. Some distributions have a more knowledgable user base (i.e. SuSE, Slackware). They are usually more accepting of other UNIXs, and sometimes even advocate the use of other UNIXs. As an example, let me point out that in the last two days on the SuSE mailing list, one user recommended the use of OpenBSD for a firewall. There has also been a discussion about the Maxtor controversy where the tone has been very positive towards FreeBSD. Not every Linux user is a zealot. - v -- Victor R. Cardona vcardona@home.com "Behold the keyboard of Kahless, the greatest Klingon code warrior that ever lived!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message