From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Apr 9 00:34:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA15829 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 00:34:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA15820 for ; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 00:34:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA15488; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 17:04:15 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id RAA14290; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 17:04:05 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980409170404.03517@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 17:04:04 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Rick Hamell , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fanatical Software Devotion References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: ; from Rick Hamell on Wed, Apr 08, 1998 at 02:30:51PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 8 April 1998 at 14:30:51 -0700, Rick Hamell wrote: > > 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? :) Good question, one I'm not going to try to answer. I hope, though, that you didn't get the impression that the book was partisan. If you did, please reply privately and tell me where and how. Greg -- Greg Lehey LEMIS grog@lemis.com PO Box 460 Tel: +61-8-8388-8286 Echunga SA 5153 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Australia finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message