Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 09:06:51 -0400 From: Jeff Uphoff <juphoff@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu> To: "matthew c. mead" <mmead@Glock.COM> Cc: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, chat@freebsd.org, pmurphy@nrao.edu Subject: Re: [Forwarded e-mail from Alexander O. Yuriev] Message-ID: <199605061306.JAA05982@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, May 6, 1996 00:52:59 -0400 References: <199605041501.LAA07331@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu> <199605060453.AAA20489@neon.Glock.COM>
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"mcm" == matthew c mead <mmead@Glock.COM> writes:
mcm> I think it was a comparison to Bill Gates... I seem to
mcm> recall being forwarded that too... :-)
There must be two then; I just found this one in one of my quotes files:
"I think Linus is cuter than that stupid thing with the pitch-fork."
I won't attribute the quote since I don't want to get that person into
hot water too (he's one of the well-known Linux hackers). :)~
mcm> Awwww, come on! I had to! The FreeBSD chat mailing list
mcm> exists for such general chat and frivolous posting purposes!
Sounds like the linux-kernel list sometimes; I've seen higher valid
content ratios on IRC channels.
mcm> I don't get that either. I usually tell people I
mcm> recommend FreeBSD because of certain things, but then tell them
mcm> if there are certain other things they want to do or don't want
mcm> to wait for, they should stick with Linux. Most people end up
mcm> installing what most of their friends have anyway, which, around
mcm> here these days, tends to be Linux. You gotta go with your
mcm> strongest peer support network.
100% agreed.
If someone is fairly new to UNIX, I usually recommend Linux to them
since they'll normally have an easier time finding friends that can help
them, and there are a *lot* of Linux books (though only a few really
good ones) available at most decent bookstores now. There's also Red
Hat, which makes installation, admin., and upgrading a relative breeze.
(When I recommend Linux I usually recommend Red Hat.)
If they're already UNIX veterans, I'll normally recommend that they try
both OS's and then stick with the one they like better. (Personally, I
tried 386BSD before trying Linux since I was already a SunOS user....)
One nice thing about the FreeBSD world is that it has one "distribution"
so the confusion factor is often a great deal lower; there're no "which
FreeBSD should I try?" type questions....
mcm> And I thought Pat was running up the mailq's. Hehe.
mcm> He's told me horror stories about yours.
I've done `mailq | wc -l` before and seen numbers well into the tens of
thousands before.... <groan>
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