From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 27 12:07:35 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C41F716A4CE for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:07:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from zeus.acuson.com (ac17860.acuson.com [157.226.71.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33A8243D5A for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:07:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02 ([157.226.230.209]:3364 helo=mvaexch02.acuson.com) by zeus.acuson.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1AlZT1-0003rI-3Q for freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:05:47 -0800 Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) id ; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 11:58:24 -0800 Received: from Siemens.com (dhcp-46-107.acuson.com [157.226.46.107]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2657.72) id VDN3H06P; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 11:57:13 -0800 From: Johnson David To: FreeBSD Newbies Message-ID: <4016C41E.5070402@Siemens.com> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:03:42 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4.3.2.7.2.20040124165448.01996f18@mail.threespace.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20040124165448.01996f18@mail.threespace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *1AlZT1-0003rI-3Q*iY1IvibvNbc* Subject: Re: The Linux Experiment X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 20:07:35 -0000 Chip Morton wrote: > Not FreeBSD related, but an interesting read from the perspective of a > veteran Windows user turned UNIX newbie. > > http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,113746,pg,1,00.asp From the article: "I didn't want a Macintosh--for one thing, I didn't want to move to a new hardware platform. That left me just one other choice: Linux." That a PC World editor only know of two operating systems for the x86 platform is shameful. I could understand the average Joe on the street thinking that there's only Windows and Linux, but an editor of a major computer magazine? We really need to get the word out that FreeBSD exists. Before we can get to the point of promoting its features, we need to promote its existance! David