From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 20 20:44:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA06482 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 20 May 1998 20:44:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from thelab.hub.org (tc-48.acadiau.ca [131.162.2.148]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA06401 for ; Wed, 20 May 1998 20:43:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.8.8/8.8.2) with SMTP id AAA17881; Thu, 21 May 1998 00:44:08 -0300 (ADT) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 00:44:07 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Wes Peters cc: Greg Lehey , "Jan B. Koum" , Chris Peiffer , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD is like Linux (was: Bet you didn't know...) In-Reply-To: <35639E5D.1221C481@softweyr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 20 May 1998, Wes Peters wrote: > The Hermit Hacker wrote: > % Bet you didn't know we were a "Linux-like operating system", eh? > > Greg Lehey wrote: > > What's wrong with that? FreeBSD *is* like Linux. Considering the > > perspective, I think it's a very nice thing to say. I'm going to > > write to the author and suggest he put in a link to > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > > Hermit, get a grip! I agree with Greg, it was complimentary. Reading > between the lines, I see "FreeBSD is a free UNIX system that runs on > PCs, like Linux, but is known to be more stable and therefore makes an > ideal high-powered internet server." I'm sorry, but it kinda grated on my nerves the way *I* read it...my interpretation of something being *like* something else is that its an imitation that isn't quite as good as the original *shrug* Being Linux-like, to me, was saying "similar to, but not as good as"...but, again, that was *my* interpretation... Marc G. Fournier Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message