From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 15 22:48:43 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 15 22:48:41 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-56-157.knology.net [24.214.56.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B88237B404 for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 22:48:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eBG6m4455486; Sat, 16 Dec 2000 00:48:04 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Message-Id: <200012160648.eBG6m4455486@grumpy.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Chris Dillon Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: This will replace Linux? In-reply-to: Message from Chris Dillon of "Fri, 15 Dec 2000 23:58:51 CST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 00:48:04 -0600 Sender: dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris Dillon writes: > On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Allen Lynch wrote: > > > I have used Windows 98, BeOS and 5 different distributions of > > Linux. The experience of installing your OS was one of the worst > > of my life, and I am permanently disabled with a severe, chronic, > > bipolar disorder. I told a friend at Caldera that I would kill > > before I'd repeat the experience. [...] > > 5. I don't know anyone at FreeBSD and for that I am truly > > grateful. Friends at Caldera? Strange friends if he introduced himself to them the same way he did here. > > 6. Netscape has just informed me that someone is running on my > > desktop, that has never happened with ny other system. > > I really don't understand what you just said here. However, I can > guess that you mean that Communicator popped up a box saying that > you've already got a copy of Communicator running as the same user. > This can happen on any Unix-based OS running Netscape Communicator, > not just FreeBSD. Try it on Linux sometime, since you have five > different Linux distributions, apparently. Apparently doesn't actually do anything with any of them beyond install, upgrade, complain, and upgrade. The posting smells of a troll. Would have been best if completely ignored. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message