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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>
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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!"
> 
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