From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 11 22:39: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C1F937B405 for ; Sat, 11 May 2002 22:39:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 752CE8148C; Sun, 12 May 2002 15:08:58 +0930 (CST) Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 15:08:58 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Pete Ehlke Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: YA fortune Message-ID: <20020512150858.A9145@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20020509192728.A10792@ehlke.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020509192728.A10792@ehlke.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 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 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 -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message