From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Sep 17 2:25:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from goblin.apana.org.au (goblin.apana.org.au [203.3.126.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DC371586A for ; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 02:25:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by goblin.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA07905; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 19:48:54 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from oracle.apana.org.au(203.3.126.130), claiming to be "oracle" via SMTP by goblin.apana.org.au, id smtpdkr7903; Fri Sep 17 19:48:44 1999 Message-ID: <008801bf0141$78229ea0$827e03cb@apana.org.au> From: "Doug Young" To: Cc: References: <535d819f.25134568@aol.com> Subject: Re: it just goes on and on....... Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 19:18:46 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I need to clarify an apparent misunderstanding here .... our colleague lalala@globalserve.net seems to believe I started this thread, when in fact I was merely responding to the guy who posted the question in the first place. Be that as it may ..... I can sympathize to some extent with the guy trying to figure how to do things in FreeBSD, since for anyone from a Win9x background the move to any *nix tends to be traumatic. My personal experience with FreeBSD has not been excessively bad, but then I messed around with linuxes for months getting nowhere fast. Whilst the BSD docs are infinitely better than the linux equivalents they still represent a culture shock to those of us with experience in other operating systems .... a fact that is all to often overlooked by some unix experts. One major difference I have noticed with the FreeBSD mailing lists is that the majority of (but not all ) contributors are much more openminded as to the relative advantages of other operating systems (eg the usability issue) than certain of their more fanatic linux brethren who tend to view Linus Torvalds as some sort of major deity and Bill Gates as the Antichrist. ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Cc: Sent: Friday, September 17, 1999 7:19 AM Subject: Re: it just goes on and on....... > I think the solution would be to use winNT... It's not as good as > FreeBSD, but might be more appropriate to your skill level if the maturity > of your discourse is any indication. > > Dont rub his nose to hard into the ground Martin. Also, FreeBSD is no better > than WinNT and its not for the immature. Also this guys making an attempt at > installing FreeBSD and is asking for help, if you cant help him dont reply. > We both would probably be this way if we spent hours try to install something. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message