From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 9 20:16:42 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD105106566B for ; Sun, 9 Aug 2009 20:16:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from corky1951@comcast.net) Received: from QMTA08.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta08.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.80]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A3FF8FC1A for ; Sun, 9 Aug 2009 20:16:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from OMTA17.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.89]) by QMTA08.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id SJ2k1c00K1vXlb858LGi0p; Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:16:42 +0000 Received: from comcast.net ([98.203.142.76]) by OMTA17.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id SLL31c0021f6R9u3dLL4rV; Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:20:05 +0000 Received: by comcast.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 09 Aug 2009 13:16:39 -0700 Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 13:16:39 -0700 From: Charlie Kester To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20090809201639.GG4339@comcast.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20090806120011.8528A106567E@hub.freebsd.org> <182370.92452.qm@web65511.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> <20090808164600.GA11570@kokopelli.hydra> <20090808195518.7eb8e5ee.freebsd@edvax.de> <20090809135230.GA21588@kokopelli.hydra> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090809135230.GA21588@kokopelli.hydra> X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5.20 X-Composer: VIM 7.2 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Subject: Re: FreeBSD for the common man(or woman) (was: > upgrade 7.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:16:43 -0000 On Sun 09 Aug 2009 at 06:52:31 PDT Chad Perrin wrote: > >An info page is almost as bad as nothing, as far as I'm concerned. The >GNU project has this bizarre idea that everybody in the world should use >everything it produces and *nothing else*, no matter how painful it all >is to use -- and assumes everybody should be using emacs, so obviously >the baroque emacs-inspired interface to info pages is "ideal". It has always puzzled me that Stallman set out to implement a Unix-like operating system and userland, when his roots seem to have been elsewhere. Sometimes I think he must have had a grudge against Unix and that he deliberately set out to pervert it. That would certainly explain some of the more bizarre things coming from GNU! Never forget, vi was created by the same guy who put together the original tapes of the Berkeley Software Distribution. ;-)