From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Apr 20 05:44:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA18939 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 20 Apr 1997 05:44:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shadows.aeon.net (bsdchat@shadows.aeon.net [194.100.41.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA18933 for ; Sun, 20 Apr 1997 05:44:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bsdchat@localhost) by shadows.aeon.net (8.8.5/8.8.3) id PAA14411; Sun, 20 Apr 1997 15:44:26 +0300 (EET DST) From: mika ruohotie Message-Id: <199704201244.PAA14411@shadows.aeon.net> Subject: Re: On Holy Wars, and a Plea for Peace [sorry Danny, wherever you are, but the title fits]... In-Reply-To: from The Hermit Hacker at "Apr 19, 97 02:34:00 pm" To: scrappy@hub.org (The Hermit Hacker) Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 15:44:26 +0300 (EET DST) Cc: joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu, jack@diamond.xtalwind.net, mark@quickweb.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > How come Linux is so well-known? What in its history caused it to > Pretty much the first *free* Unix-like operating system. I think > its only predecessor was Minix(?) It wasn't for about a year after I played > with Linux that I even heard of FreeBSD... uh. i had been using freebsd for months when i first heard about linux at all, and it's somewhat strange since i live in helsinki and was studying in a college at the time... later i've earned that back then, 92, the linux had already been a while, so had freebsd. and mostly coz of our administrator of the time, and those linux freaks we had in our school from the start of 93, i was pretty well alienated from any ideas of ever even considering running linux. since i found the attitude those linux people had revolting. it was in category of religious fanatics, only few magnitudes more. *gag* anyway, incidently, atleast few of those back then freaks have turned into freebsd as soon as they left school and started to do something serious. *smile* mickey -- mika@aeon.net <- just watch me rising on rc5 stats :p