From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Mar 8 0: 2:36 2001 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 8852B37B718 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 00:02:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by goblin.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA20735; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 18:02:24 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from roadrunner.apana.org.au(203.3.126.132), claiming to be "roadrunner" via SMTP by goblin.apana.org.au, id smtpdX20733; Thu Mar 8 18:02:17 2001 Message-ID: <01b401c0a7a6$3927e720$847e03cb@apana.org.au> From: "Doug Young" To: "Victor R. Cardona" , References: <01030800251100.00557@r55h47.res.gatech.edu> <00f901c0a794$0b2a64e0$847e03cb@apana.org.au> <20010308015238.A6647@marx.marvic.chum> Subject: Re: About Unix Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 18:03:10 +1000 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 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org If the experience of many people with linux is like mine I wouldn't count on any significant migration from linux to FreeBSD. After a bad year struggling with the disgusting linux documentation, the often totally bigoted faithful who face California several times a day to chant "Our Linus, Who art in CA ...." and who swear William of Redmond is the Antichrist, the need to do a full reinstall after a power failure, & new kernels every other day, I was just about to return to unstable & simple minded Windows systems. Stumbling across FreeBSD was more accident than anything else ... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Victor R. Cardona" To: Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 5:52 PM Subject: Re: About Unix > On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 03:52:57PM +1000, Doug Young wrote: > > Hear hear !!!! ..... no way that stuff will get onto any of my systems :) > > Well think of it this way, and perhaps it will make it more palatable. > > A couple of years ago, the average user thought that Microsoft was the > epitome of computing. There were no visible alternatives, so they just > kept using what they had always used, Windows. All of a sudden, this > UNIX clone called Linux, starts to become popular. People see that it > isn't that bad. They play with Linux, learn to like it, want more, and > eventualy move on to BSD based systems. > > Of course, if you don't care for new users... > > - v > -- > Victor R. Cardona > vcardona@home.com > > "Behold the keyboard of Kahless, the greatest Klingon > code warrior that ever lived!" > > > 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