Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 17:20:12 -0700 From: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com> To: Nicole Harrington <nicole@nmhtech.com> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Slashdot Message-ID: <19990425172012.H45524@001101.zer0.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990425170130.nicole@nmhtech.com>; from Nicole Harrington on Sun, Apr 25, 1999 at 05:01:30PM -0700 References: <19990425184723.B422@holly.dyndns.org> <XFMail.990425170130.nicole@nmhtech.com>
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On Sun, Apr 25, 1999 at 05:01:30PM -0700, Nicole Harrington wrote: > > From what I have seen: > > Slashdot = Linux Kids = Penquin = Bedroom computing > FreeBSD = Adults = Daemon = Real world Computing Linux is usable for real world computing... it's just not _as_ usable as FreeBSD. What you're seeing on /. is the result of the Linux population explosion, and doesn't represent all Linux users any more than AOL represents all Internet users. They're just (generally) the loudest and least clueful. It's too bad. /. should consider disabling "Anonymous Coward" postings; that would result in a lot less FUD and probably a good deal more cluefulness, at the expense of voluminous numbers of A.C. postings that generally don't have much to say anyway. > Its like trying to convince a gorilla that your 1 bananna is equal to > his 2 bannnas. What? Banana? Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter Was Jimi's modem a Purple Hayes? mailto:gsutter@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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