From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Mar 8 1:15:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ABA337B719 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 01:15:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vcardona@home.com) Received: from marx.marvic.chum ([24.17.229.11]) by femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20010308091527.GKDB811.femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com@marx.marvic.chum>; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 01:15:27 -0800 Received: (from vcardona@localhost) by marx.marvic.chum (8.11.2/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) id f289GZw07206; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 03:16:35 -0600 Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 03:16:35 -0600 From: "Victor R. Cardona" To: Doug Young Cc: "Victor R. Cardona" , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: About Unix Message-ID: <20010308031635.A7166@marx.marvic.chum> Mail-Followup-To: Doug Young , "Victor R. Cardona" , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG References: <01030800251100.00557@r55h47.res.gatech.edu> <00f901c0a794$0b2a64e0$847e03cb@apana.org.au> <20010308015238.A6647@marx.marvic.chum> <01b401c0a7a6$3927e720$847e03cb@apana.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: <01b401c0a7a6$3927e720$847e03cb@apana.org.au>; from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au on Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 06:03:10PM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 06:03:10PM +1000, Doug Young wrote: > 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 ... That is the complete opposite of my experience. I started with Linux a couple of years ago, and have since started using FreeBSD. Of course, I don't share the negative opinion of Linux that you seem to have. Point is, if it hadn't been for Linux, I would probably not have discovered FreeBSD. - 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