Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 14:40:52 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com> To: Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net> Cc: FreeBSD-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD versus LINUX Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980503143957.9280H-100000@shell6.ba.best.com> In-Reply-To: <354BCEC4.7488008C@airnet.net>
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Just like my .sig said all this time. :)
Yet, we are better to have Linux then Windows.
-- Yan
Jan Koum jkb@best.com | "Turn up the lights; I don't want
www.FreeBSD.org -- The Power to Serve | to go home in the dark."
Linux -- DOS of the Unix world.
On Sat, 2 May 1998, Kris Kirby wrote:
>John Kelly wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 30 Apr 1998 22:30:41 -0500 (CDT), Frank Pawlak
>> <fpawlak@execpc.com> wrote:
>>
>> >In answering the question as I did, I was trying to provide some
>> >information to persons that were switching from Linux to FreeBSD and
>> >asking for information on the differences between them, and quite
>> >frankly were given bullshit for an answer.
>>
>> I don't think so. Take of poll of all ISP's running either of the
>> two, and I think you'll find that the vast majority prefer FreeBSD
>> instead of Linux. My statement stands. "Amateurs like Linux, but
>> professionals prefer FreeBSD."
>
>I just returned from a 3rd-12th grade technology conference. I found
>Windows 95 in abudance. The machines that weren't running 95 were
>dual-booting (with LILO) to Linux. When commenting about FreeBSD, one
>person told me quite bluntly: "I'm not down with that FreeBSD shit." For
>those of you unaccustomed to the many ideosyncracies of the English
>language, he is saying that he doesn't like FreeBSD, and expresses no
>future interest in it. But his main point was being able to configure
>everything from X. What does he think this is Windows 95 or UN*X?! I
>*really* felt bad for not bringing my machine (with the numerous pics of
>Chuck. :)) What I saw when Linux was booting I did not like. It reminded
>me *too* much of DOS. I now firmly believe that Linux is the Windows of
>the UN*X world. flames >> /dev/null
>
>--
>
>Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net>
>-------------------------------------------
>TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said.
>
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