From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 13 08:51:36 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D134916A4CE for ; Tue, 13 Apr 2004 08:51:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (u46n208.hfx.eastlink.ca [24.222.46.208]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5785E43D53 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 2004 08:51:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7E40635959; Tue, 13 Apr 2004 12:51:35 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B23D3594F; Tue, 13 Apr 2004 12:51:35 -0300 (ADT) Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 12:51:35 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Joshua Lokken In-Reply-To: <20040413153704.GB3304@joloxbox> Message-ID: <20040413125012.S19123@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20040413153704.GB3304@joloxbox> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: advanced DOS X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 15:51:36 -0000 On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Joshua Lokken wrote: > > > I just had a co-worker tell me that his opinion of *NIX is that it's > "just advanced DOS." I had to roll on the floor for a few minutes, > laughing... ;) Actually, this does give a *very* simplified view of it from an end-users perspective ... think of X as Windows 3.1 over DOS ... note that that is the easiest thing for an *end-user* to grasp, since it gives them a reference point that 99.9% of end-users can understand ... Now, from an admin standpoint, that isn't even close ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664