Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 19:24:56 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> To: "Victor R. Cardona" <vcardona@home.com> Cc: "Victor R. Cardona" <vcardona@home.com>, <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: About Unix Message-ID: <01eb01c0a7b1$a6d4fc80$847e03cb@apana.org.au> References: <OFA420CC63.6AEAEDB6-ON87256A08.006994B1@smed.com> <01030800251100.00557@r55h47.res.gatech.edu> <00f901c0a794$0b2a64e0$847e03cb@apana.org.au> <20010308015238.A6647@marx.marvic.chum> <01b401c0a7a6$3927e720$847e03cb@apana.org.au> <20010308031635
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Probably the most negative experience I've had with linux was on a local mailing list belong "HUMBUG". The inhabitants there are generally so fanatic that any non-linux user stumbling into the group has to either swear undying allegiance to Linus or be forever damned :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Victor R. Cardona" <vcardona@home.com> To: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> Cc: "Victor R. Cardona" <vcardona@home.com>; <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 7:16 PM Subject: Re: About Unix > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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