From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Nov 30 15:51:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.acns.ab.ca (h24-64-56-135.cg.shawcable.net [24.64.56.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E0D537B419 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 15:51:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from colnta.acns.ab.ca (colnta.acns.ab.ca [192.168.1.2]) by mail.acns.ab.ca (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fAUNpfb14435; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 16:51:41 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from davidc@colnta.acns.ab.ca) Received: (from davidc@localhost) by colnta.acns.ab.ca (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fAUNpfC41289; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 16:51:41 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from davidc) Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 16:51:41 -0700 From: Chad David To: Anthony Atkielski Cc: Mike Meyer , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: As usual, I disagree. Message-ID: <20011130165141.A41249@colnta.acns.ab.ca> References: <15366.58396.746782.116282@guru.mired.org><036901c17949$335163b0$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15367.35596.70893.123850@guru.mired.org><03fa01c179ac$e85cdba0$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15367.40254.191788.665077@guru.mired.org><040c01c179b0$c01ff790$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15367.44663.511557.67023@guru.mired.org> <003801c179eb$2cd9ef00$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011130151903.A40291@colnta.acns.ab.ca> <005101c179f1$248dda40$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <005101c179f1$248dda40$0a00000a@atkielski.com>; from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com on Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 11:48:33PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 11:48:33PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Chad writes: > > > Interesting, I've been using it on my desktop > > for years. > > Your application requirements are probably more circumscribed than most. I don't know, I've gone from systems programmer to President and CEO of a software company back to "retired" programmer without ever having a need that AIX/Solaris/BSD couldn't fill (except maybe Starcraft for a while). For example, it wasn't that long ago that WordPerfect was the desktop standard, and it ran just fine on Unix. > > > That hasn't really been true for 2-3 years. Every > > user I know can download things from the net... in > > fact I sometimes wish they would forget! > > They can download MP3s and games, but typically they don't know how to download > or even how to find most other stuff. What exactly is stuff? If you can download an MP3 or games you should be able to download anything else? -- Chad David davidc@acns.ab.ca ACNS Inc. Calgary, Alberta Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message