From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Jun 27 16:17:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA16034 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sat, 27 Jun 1998 16:17:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from login-2.eunet.no (0@login-2.eunet.no [193.71.71.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA16026 for ; Sat, 27 Jun 1998 16:17:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from havardjv@gudmund.vgs.no) Received: from arwen.myst.no (pc3.bergen-pm2-1.eunet.no [193.75.12.3]) by login-2.eunet.no (8.9.0/8.9.0/GN) with ESMTP id BAA28939; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 01:17:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (hjv@localhost) by arwen.myst.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA00368; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 00:37:19 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from havardjv@gudmund.vgs.no) X-Authentication-Warning: arwen.myst.no: hjv owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 00:37:19 +0200 (CEST) From: Haavard Vaagstoel X-Sender: hjv@arwen.myst.no To: Tim Gerchmez cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: The average Unix user In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Tim Gerchmez wrote: > I agree with your point. In fact, I'd take it further to state that "the > average" Unix user is probably more intelligent than "the average" Win95 user, > simply because they have to be to figure out how to install, configure and > administer their system. The learning curve in the beginning with some > flavors Though it may seem like that from a home-user point of view, I sincerely doubt it that the average Unix user has installed, configured and is currently administering her/his own system... -- Haavard Vaagstoel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message