From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 9 11:30:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA02715 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 11:30:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA02692 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 11:30:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr09.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA06357; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 12:30:38 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd006286; Fri Jan 9 12:30:29 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA28321; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 12:30:18 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199801091930.MAA28321@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: X based Free installation To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 19:30:18 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, tom@sdf.com, capriotti@geocities.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Simon Shapiro" at Feb 6, 36 10:28:34 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > BTW, you made a comment about Linux ease of installation. Which Linux? Any Linux for which the Linux camp is willing to send out a schmuck to endure the pain on your behalf is basically painless to install. It's topologically equivalent to having very, very good install tools. ;-). Also, I screwed up my otherwise beautiful example with a factual error: > > The Catholic Church vs. Galileo was mostly the > > result of him writing Principia Mathematica in Italian instead of > > Latin -- "us commoners" of the time couldn't read or write Latin, and > > new ideas needed to be fit into Church doctrine over time so that > > "us commoners" wouldn't see abrupt changes and thus erode the > > claim to authority of the Church. 8-). Galileo, of course, did not write Principia Mathematica, which was of course, written in Latin, not Italian. Thanks to Pedro Giffuni for pointing this out (to my terrific embarrassment -- I almost never make this kind of error). The book I should have referenced was De Revolutionibus orblure coelestium ("The Revolution of the heavens", not "Mathematical Principles"). Anyone interested in a detailed account of the event should see http://www.knight.org/advent/cathen/06342b.htm Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.