From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun May 3 14:41:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA02890 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sun, 3 May 1998 14:41:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell6.ba.best.com (jkb@shell6.ba.best.com [206.184.139.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA02850 for ; Sun, 3 May 1998 14:40:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkb@best.com) Received: from localhost (jkb@localhost) by shell6.ba.best.com (8.8.8/8.8.BEST) with SMTP id OAA13500; Sun, 3 May 1998 14:40:52 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: shell6.ba.best.com: jkb owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 14:40:52 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jan B. Koum " X-Sender: jkb@shell6.ba.best.com To: Kris Kirby cc: FreeBSD-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD versus LINUX In-Reply-To: <354BCEC4.7488008C@airnet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Just like my .sig said all this time. :) Yet, we are better to have Linux then Windows. -- Yan Jan Koum jkb@best.com | "Turn up the lights; I don't want www.FreeBSD.org -- The Power to Serve | to go home in the dark." Linux -- DOS of the Unix world. On Sat, 2 May 1998, Kris Kirby wrote: >John Kelly wrote: >> >> On Thu, 30 Apr 1998 22:30:41 -0500 (CDT), Frank Pawlak >> wrote: >> >> >In answering the question as I did, I was trying to provide some >> >information to persons that were switching from Linux to FreeBSD and >> >asking for information on the differences between them, and quite >> >frankly were given bullshit for an answer. >> >> I don't think so. Take of poll of all ISP's running either of the >> two, and I think you'll find that the vast majority prefer FreeBSD >> instead of Linux. My statement stands. "Amateurs like Linux, but >> professionals prefer FreeBSD." > >I just returned from a 3rd-12th grade technology conference. I found >Windows 95 in abudance. The machines that weren't running 95 were >dual-booting (with LILO) to Linux. When commenting about FreeBSD, one >person told me quite bluntly: "I'm not down with that FreeBSD shit." For >those of you unaccustomed to the many ideosyncracies of the English >language, he is saying that he doesn't like FreeBSD, and expresses no >future interest in it. But his main point was being able to configure >everything from X. What does he think this is Windows 95 or UN*X?! I >*really* felt bad for not bringing my machine (with the numerous pics of >Chuck. :)) What I saw when Linux was booting I did not like. It reminded >me *too* much of DOS. I now firmly believe that Linux is the Windows of >the UN*X world. flames >> /dev/null > >-- > >Kris Kirby >------------------------------------------- >TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message