From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Mar 8 1:24:25 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 DBC7B37B719 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 01:24:19 -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 TAA20804; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 19:24:10 +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 smtpdl20802; Thu Mar 8 19:24:06 2001 Message-ID: <01eb01c0a7b1$a6d4fc80$847e03cb@apana.org.au> From: "Doug Young" To: "Victor R. Cardona" Cc: "Victor R. Cardona" , References: <01030800251100.00557@r55h47.res.gatech.edu> <00f901c0a794$0b2a64e0$847e03cb@apana.org.au> <20010308015238.A6647@marx.marvic.chum> <01b401c0a7a6$3927e720$847e03cb@apana.org.au> <20010308031635 Subject: Re: About Unix Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 19:24:56 +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 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" To: "Doug Young" Cc: "Victor R. Cardona" ; 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