Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 14:30:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Hamell <hamellr@polymorph.qcsn.com> To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Fanatical Software Devotion Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980408141604.17012A-100000@polymorph.qcsn.com>
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As I was reading 'The Complete FreeBSD' by Greg Lehey, I started to reflect upon what I perceive as fanatism in software. I.e. Windows95 is just a rip off of MacOS System 7. Linux is the truly free system, FreeBSD is more stable then Linux, etc. etc. :) Anybody have any insight/personal feelings on this? Any reason why you are a 'fanatic' of one system versus another? :) For me personally, I'm still getting into FreeBSD, but I've always been intrigued by the thought of a real 'multi-tasking' OS. Having jumped from the Atari, to the Commodore 64 world, then to a 386 running Windows 3.1 At that point, my main computer use was always games. Having played with several Macs along the way, I was always less then impressed with the whole mouse idea. (That and most the early Macs I played with never had a color screen.) After being introduced to the world of BBSing I begun to see the need for a multi-tasking system. My first Unix experience was with the college computers dial-up shell accounts. Since then, I've played around with several different UNIX flavors. It seems to me, that *I* am not as fanatical as some people, which I attribute to having been exposed early on in my computing use to several different OSes. But, it still astounds me how many customers I deal with who have to have Win 3.11 or OS/2, or Win95, or nothing. Any comments? :) Rick Hamell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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