From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 13 19:05:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA19323 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 19:05:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA19179 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 02:04:18 GMT (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt3-56.HiWAAY.net [208.147.146.56]) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id VAA10469 for ; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 21:04:04 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.8/8.8.4) with ESMTP id UAA04014 for ; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 20:10:03 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199804140110.UAA04014@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Geez -- Linux, Linux everywhere... In-reply-to: Message from Sean Harding of "Mon, 13 Apr 1998 16:46:31 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 20:10:03 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sean Harding writes: > > Most of the "Linux users" (maybe lusers) I know are surprisingly clueless. > I was once of the belief that if someone is smart enough to shun Microsoft > (all hail the King) and install Linux, they must be relatively clued--even > if they don't agree with my OS choice. But I know a huge number of people > who run Linux, and don't even *try* to learn about it. They alias 'ls' to > 'dir,' run as root all the time and use the GUI admin tools for > everything. That reminds me of one of the things that bugged me about Slackware and/ or SLS Linux many years ago - first thing I had to do after an install is remove those #%$^@ pre-installed DOSism aliases. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message