From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 19 0:57:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc2.on.home.com (ha1.rdc2.on.home.com [24.9.0.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E898C37B669 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 00:56:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from generic@unitedtamers.com) Received: from x ([24.68.108.159]) by mail.rdc2.on.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.17 201-229-119) with SMTP id <20000619075658.GPQG3202.mail.rdc2.on.home.com@x> for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 00:56:58 -0700 Message-ID: <00c601bfd9c4$02c0cb30$0100a8c0@x> From: "Generic Player" To: Subject: re: BSD Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 03:57:26 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I would suggest a trip to the book store and pick up a copy >of "Unix for Dummies" or "Teach Yourself Unix" or "Understanding >Unix". Unix commands, by and large, tend to be terse, a legacy >of the early days of teletypes. Unix also happens to be a multi- >user operation system, so there are artifacts to that that NT and >Windoze in general simply do not have. > I realize alot of people cling to the "M$ sux d00d" line of thinking, but NT and windows aren't the same, and NT is an inherently multi-user OS. The concepts of users, groups, and permissions apply the same to NT as they do to Unix. It doesn't further BSD any when every comment about it has to bash MS. I think FreeBSD is a pretty good OS, don't you? Good enough to stand on its own merits I'd say. Generic Player To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message