From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 10 15:42:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF04C37B7BF for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 15:42:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 12TZ3S-000FIr-00; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 23:42:50 +0000 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA38201; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 23:42:50 GMT (envelope-from jcm) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 23:42:49 +0000 From: j mckitrick To: Christian Weisgerber Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD Merger Announcement Message-ID: <20000310234249.D37838@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <38C64924.FD9B7A5F@interlog.com> <38C810A4.BE0AD747@asme.org> <8absv4$mma$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <8absv4$mma$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de>; from naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de on Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 11:28:52PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 11:28:52PM +0100, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Brad Knowles wrote: > > I've made it a habit to simply refer to "BSD" and only be more > specific when required. I've also made sure to explicitly say "Red > Hat", "Debian", etc when specifically talking about features of > those, rather than saying "Linux". And from what I observe in my > Linux-centric environment, that is paying off. I've started doing that as well. And i remind people politely that RedHAt Debian, Slackware, and all the rest are different from each other in subtle but important ways. But i always say 'i run BSD Unix on my computer' and if people ask details, i may say FreeBSD. But BSD is easier anyway. :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message