Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 19:27:15 -0500 From: Eric Rivas <rivas45@sprintmail.com> To: "Victor R. Cardona" <vcardona@home.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: About Unix Message-ID: <20010308192715.7831e5c2.rivas45@sprintmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20010308015238.A6647@marx.marvic.chum> References: <OFA420CC63.6AEAEDB6-ON87256A08.006994B1@smed.com> <01030800251100.00557@r55h47.res.gatech.edu> <00f901c0a794$0b2a64e0$847e03cb@apana.org.au> <20010308015238.A6647@marx.marvic.chum>
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On Thu, 8 Mar 2001 01:52:38 -0600 "Victor R. Cardona" <vcardona@home.com> wrote: > 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. Actually my first contact with anything *nix was Redhat, heard it from some TV show and got interested. Never installed though, I kind of just skipped the whole Linux thing and found FreeBSD (which is what I choose and installed). > > 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 -- Eric J. Rivas, KC2HMV email=rivas45@sprintmail.com www=http://home.sprintmail.com/~rivas45/ icq=61930546 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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