Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 03:16:35 -0600 From: "Victor R. Cardona" <vcardona@home.com> To: Doug Young <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> Cc: "Victor R. Cardona" <vcardona@home.com>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: About Unix Message-ID: <20010308031635.A7166@marx.marvic.chum> In-Reply-To: <01b401c0a7a6$3927e720$847e03cb@apana.org.au>; from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au on Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 06:03:10PM %2B1000 References: <OFA420CC63.6AEAEDB6-ON87256A08.006994B1@smed.com> <01030800251100.00557@r55h47.res.gatech.edu> <00f901c0a794$0b2a64e0$847e03cb@apana.org.au> <20010308015238.A6647@marx.marvic.chum> <01b401c0a7a6$3927e720$847e03cb@apana.org.au>
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On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 06:03:10PM +1000, Doug Young wrote:
> If the experience of many people with linux is like mine I wouldn't count on
> any significant migration from linux to FreeBSD. After a bad year struggling
> with the disgusting linux documentation, the often totally bigoted faithful
> who
> face California several times a day to chant "Our Linus, Who art in CA
> ...."
> and who swear William of Redmond is the Antichrist, the need to do a full
> reinstall after a power failure, & new kernels every other day, I was just
> about
> to return to unstable & simple minded Windows systems. Stumbling across
> FreeBSD was more accident than anything else ...
That is the complete opposite of my experience. I started with Linux a
couple of years ago, and have since started using FreeBSD. Of course, I
don't share the negative opinion of Linux that you seem to have.
Point is, if it hadn't been for Linux, I would probably not have
discovered FreeBSD.
- v
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Victor R. Cardona
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