Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 01:57:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Hoskins <mike@adept.org> To: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A case of FreeBSD users shooting all FreeBSD users in the foot? Message-ID: <20031011015050.G56283@fubar.adept.org> In-Reply-To: <200310110015.21004.j.e.drews@worldnet.att.net> References: <002801c38fb1$95e804e0$0200a8c0@sbcgolbal.net> <200310110015.21004.j.e.drews@worldnet.att.net>
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On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, Jonathan wrote: > The "If you ask advice, you'll get polite versions of 'RTFM' mostly." may > very well come from the #freebsd irc channel, on freenode.net. I have gone in > there once or twice and witnessed really rude behavior. #freebsd is an > excellent reason not to use FreeBSD. I would not dare ask a question there; I > think it's run by professional (l337) sysadmin guys who are into sadism. who else would you expect to run an IRC channel? ;) UNIX geeks have always shouted "RTFM"... BSD geeks, Linux geeks... and many geeks before them. in all fairness, i'd expect a hardened GNU hacker to have slightly thicker skin. i thought that was a natural evolutionry trait required for survival by any opensource proponent. -mrh -- From: "Spam Catcher" <spam-catcher@adept.org> To: spam-catcher@adept.org Do NOT send email to the address listed above or you will be added to a blacklist!
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