Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 13:25:22 -0500 From: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: Bart Silverstrim <bsilver@chrononomicon.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Celeron Message-ID: <ef10de9a0506131125669e07fb@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2acee80dede7a489d8e8e130f0824ebd@chrononomicon.com> References: <20050607123103.49021.qmail@web52306.mail.yahoo.com> <ef10de9a05061223283de05037@mail.gmail.com> <Pine.LNX.4.62.0506131437480.6802@Psilocybe.Update.UU.SE> <ef10de9a05061310126cf79f2a@mail.gmail.com> <2acee80dede7a489d8e8e130f0824ebd@chrononomicon.com>
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On 6/13/05, Bart Silverstrim <bsilver@chrononomicon.com> wrote: > [snipped] > > > You could call GNU/Linux an operating system but I wouldn't, not after > > being introduced to an engineered system like FreeBSD. FreeBSD is to > > Linux as Gold is to Lead, there very similar but one is worthless. > > I think the GNU/Linux term is actually supposed to be applied to the > Linux kernel with the GNU tools, although it may be applied to just the > kernel. Would have to ask Stallman about that. As for the comment > about being worthless, to each their own. I'm sure there are a lot of > companies and Linux users who would disagree, and I'd be so inclined to > disagree as well seeing that I've managed to get plenty of useful tasks > done using various flavors of Linux. > The only thing I meant by that comment is the way it's "hodgepodged" together. You spend more time working on the system then the system acculy working for you. FreeBSD just works.home | help
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