Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 15:08:58 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Pete Ehlke <pde@ehlke.net> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: YA fortune Message-ID: <20020512150858.A9145@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20020509192728.A10792@ehlke.net> References: <20020509192728.A10792@ehlke.net>
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On Thursday, 9 May 2002 at 19:27:28 -0700, Pete Ehlke wrote:
>
> So... to tie together a couple of recent threads:
>
> No no no. At risk of becoming embroiled in another OS religious war,
> use FreeBSD if you must use a PC-based system. Linux just makes me ill.
> ("Uh, well, let's see: I need procps version foo, networking tools
> version bar with patch baz, libc version gronk, kernel version freen -- no
> wait, procps version foo doesn't work with kernel version freen so I need
> procps version foo patchlevel fnord -- hold it: now I need libc version *honk*
> to make procps version fnord work -- and I need modules version *belch*
> and -- wait: I have an SMC EtherPower card so I need to patch the kernel
> to use tulip driver version spoon....")
>
> --Bill Paul
While I can relate to that only too well (and the years haven't
lessened the impact), I don't think this would help relations with
Linux people, including those who are potential converts to FreeBSD.
If we do include it, I suppose we should put it in fortunes-o.
Greg
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