From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Apr 14 02:52:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA06046 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 02:52:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-20.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA06040 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 09:52:33 GMT (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from radan.demon.co.uk ([158.152.75.22]) by post.mail.demon.net id aa2003325; 14 Apr 98 9:47 GMT Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id KAA03606; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:46:45 +0100 Received: from uk.radan.com (gppsun4) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA08185; Tue, 14 Apr 98 10:46:43 BST Message-Id: <35333078.833A3C76@uk.radan.com> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:46:32 +0100 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fanatical Software Devotion References: <19980409170404.03517@freebie.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greg Lehey wrote: > > On Wed, 8 April 1998 at 14:30:51 -0700, Rick Hamell wrote: > > > > As I was reading 'The Complete FreeBSD' by Greg Lehey, I started > > to reflect upon what I perceive as fanatism in software. I.e. Windows95 is > > just a rip off of MacOS System 7. Linux is the truly free system, FreeBSD > > is more stable then Linux, etc. etc. :) Anybody have any insight/personal > > feelings on this? Any reason why you are a 'fanatic' of one system versus > > another? :) > > Good question, one I'm not going to try to answer. I hope, though, > that you didn't get the impression that the book was partisan. If you > did, please reply privately and tell me where and how. > > Greg > > -- > Greg Lehey LEMIS > grog@lemis.com PO Box 460 > Tel: +61-8-8388-8286 Echunga SA 5153 > Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Australia > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message Hi, Can anyone tell me who sells or distributes this book in the UK. I haven't been able to find a copy. -- Mark Ovens *====================================* CNC Apps Engineer | One of the main causes of the fall | Radan Computational Ltd | of the Roman Empire was, that | mailto:marko@uk.radan.com | lacking a zero, they had no way of | | indicating the successful | | termination of their C programs | *====================================* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message