Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 07:40:40 -0800 (PST) From: Bill Schoolcraft <bill@wiliweld.com> To: Doug Young <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> Cc: "Victor R. Cardona" <vcardona@home.com>, <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: About Unix (meeting someone's parents:) Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.30.0103080723250.9360-100000@corten8> In-Reply-To: <01eb01c0a7b1$a6d4fc80$847e03cb@apana.org.au>
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At Thu, 8 Mar 2001 it looks like Doug Young composed: dougy->Probably the most negative experience I've had with linux was on a local dougy->mailing list belong dougy->"HUMBUG". The inhabitants there are generally so fanatic that any non-linux dougy->user stumbling dougy->into the group has to either swear undying allegiance to Linus or be forever dougy->damned :) dougy-> ........... I had felt the same when I first joined them. The funny thing about running other Unix distro's that were around BEFORE Linux is that once inside of either *BSD or Solaris etc, you seem to notice familiarities. That reminded "me" of meeting the parents of an old friend once, I immediately saw where this person got there hair color, attitude and stature. This is no different than Linux, which inherited a little of the Unix OS's before it. So when I hear Linux people say "BAH, Humbug" to Unix, I chuckle on the little bit of history they are missing out on. I have become a better Linux admin as a result of running *BSD, and Solaris, and using HP-UX at the local college. -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 -o) San Francisco CA 94121 /\ "UNIX, A Way Of Life." _\_v http://forwardslashunix.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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