Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 13:30:55 -0800 (PST) From: Keith Woodman <keith@lightningweb.com> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot disk Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981215132130.21850A-100000@nefertiti.lightningweb.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812151246590.1354-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
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Hmm. It wasn't my intention to slam or say that BSD is not as good as Linux. That wasn't the intent at all. I was mearly making an observation that it seems like BSD is less accessible to newcomers. If I sounded like I was snapping a rash comment I appologise. It was not my intent. It is a fair observation you must admit that FreeBSD does cater more to the experienced users and hackers of a different ilk than does other flavors of Unix. My appologise to anyone that took that posting wrong. As far as my lack of ability to actually find the dang boot flop on the site. Well. :-) What can I say. I have looked over and over that site to find nothing. So shoot me, I'm an idiot when it comes to a simple search. At any rate. Thanks for the mails even the flames. I'll not be so quick to jump to the defensive from now on. Thank you. Keith ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Keith Woodman Technical Coordinator Keith@lightningweb.com Lightningweb LLC pid 7962 (sniffit), uid 0: exited on signal 10 (core dumped) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Jason C. Wells wrote: > On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Keith Woodman wrote: > > >Well. > > >It doesn't do the image of the OS and it's supporters well when people > >come in and slam on someone asking a simple question. > > Shall I remind you of the tone that you took in your very first message? > > You didn't "ask a simple question" as you state here. You were quite curt. > You followed up with "no wonder Linux is more popular". You may have just > as well said "no wonder windows or mac is more popular". I am not the only > one who picked up on it. If you are going to say things like that then > stand by. Words will be had. > > I guess the modus operandi is you "slam on" us then "we must act like > perfect gentlemen" in response. Sorry, you have to mind your manners as > well. > > Now about that snobbery. People will answer the dumbest of dumb questions > here. Of course, the likelihood of receiving at least one "RTFM" goes up > linearly with the stupidity of the question. The likelihood of receiving a > rebuke goes up factorially with a bad attitude. I know. I received one > myself back when I was slightly less new to FreeBSD than you. > > As you watch and see how we work you will see that there are some very > active, very top flight hackers here mixed in with all levels of > capability. Stick around for a few weeks. I think you will be impressed. > > Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering > Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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