From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Jun 12 4:23:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from moo.sysabend.org (moo.sysabend.org [63.86.88.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4BED37B401; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 04:23:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ragnar@sysabend.org) Received: by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix, from userid 1004) id ECD997565; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 04:23:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA1C61D8E; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 04:23:47 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 04:23:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Jamie Bowden To: Crist Clark Cc: chat@freebsd.org, advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD Article in Information Security Magazine In-Reply-To: <3B25310D.2E6571B@globalstar.com> Message-ID: Approved: yep X-representing: Only myself. X-badge: We don't need no stinking badges. X-obligatory-profanity: Fuck X-moo: Moo. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Crist Clark wrote: :The author, Pete Loshin, makes is sound as if a *BSD is the natural :progression from using a Linux flavor. Thinking about it, I do notice :a lot of people on *BSD mail lists who say they used to use Linux and :now use a *BSD, but seldom hear the reverse (with the exception of people :who have to use Linux at work for some reason or another). I wonder :how much movement there is between the two camps... not that every :person necessarily has to be a card-carrying Linux- or *BSD-zealot :and not have some appreciation for a variety of projects/products. I chose FreeBSD over Linux simply because it was more like SunOS 4.1.x (which is what the Sun on my desk at work ran at the time). I really hated the question and answer script method of kernel building present in Linux, that was just totally alien. Jamie Bowden -- "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" Iain Bowen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message