From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Oct 24 18:54:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA43F37B4C5 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 18:54:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from slave (Studded@slave [10.0.0.1]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA95311; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 18:54:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 18:54:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton X-Sender: doug@dt051n37.san.rr.com To: "Victor R. Cardona" Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My Experience With FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <20001024143033.C12045@home.com> 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 Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Victor R. Cardona wrote: > It is good to here stories like this. I am a FreeBSD newbie, and so far > am very impressed. I cannot slam Linux though. It got me started with > UNIX. That's an excellent attitude to have. Linux is not our enemy. There are some (ok, IMO a lot) of things that we do better then they do, and there are some things they do better than we do. If you need an enemy, aim at microsoft. And not because they are closed source, because the company itself is evil, and uses its market position to unfairly supress competition and creativity. Doug -- "The dead cannot be seduced." - Kai, "Lexx" Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message