Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 12:13:04 +0100 From: Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz@wanadoo.es> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thank you! Message-ID: <41E7A940.2090407@wanadoo.es> In-Reply-To: <41E73ACC.1080607@taborandtashell.net> References: <20050113175750.85317.qmail@web61307.mail.yahoo.com> <41E73ACC.1080607@taborandtashell.net>
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Hello FreeBSD Friends. I have just arrived to the FreeBSD world. I am not an expert on anything, I am only a computer fan and use my computer mainly for my engineering work and hobbies (amateur radio, photography, astronomy, etc.). I come from a happy Debian GNU/Linux experience. I paid attention on FreeBSD when reading a Linux magazine and installed it two months ago. I really do not have any important reasons to change, but I admit that I am impressed and I like FreeBSD very much, and my interest on it is incresing everyday. I like its centralized development and its separation between the OS and the ports. Perhaps one day I will do the change, but I first must feel safe and confortable with the FreeBSD, the same that when I changed from WinDog to Linux. I do not like linux-FreeBSD wars. I hate them. Both are good operating systems with their pros and cons. Many of you tell that Linux is a desktop OS, and that it is a chaothic OS. I do not agree with that, and If you argue that, you do not know Linux well. When I speak about Linux, I mean Debian or Gentoo. I do not think that they are chaothic or intended for desktop. Debian put all the pieces together in one OS that is in order and works nicely. Gentoo portage philosophy is similiar to FreeBSD ports. People on the FreeBSD and Debian GNU/Linux mailing lists are very kind and help you in any case, if you ask questions politely and you have searched and read tha manuals first. So, why do we start always the war? The real war should be against the Bill Gates OSes, instead of fighting among us. I have never heard a bad word about FreeBSD on the Linux lists. Indeed, I think that most of Linux people do not even know thet FreeBSD exists, some of them think that it is another Linux distribution. On the oposite side, I have heard several people hating Linux on this list, even comparing it with WinDogs :-( I hate the following wars: BSD license vs GPL license Linux vs xBSD GNOME vs KDE bash vs tcsh text apps vs X apps CUPS vs lpr I think we should cooperate instead of fighting. Indeed, BSD code is on Linux OSes, and GNU software is on FreeBSD ports...... etc... Thank you very much and sorry for my bad english. Just my 2 euro cents. Ramiro Aceves. (Spain)
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