From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 21 21:58:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-56-41.knology.net [24.214.56.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55BBA37B698 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 21:58:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0M5vvl09502; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 23:57:57 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Message-Id: <200101220557.f0M5vvl09502@grumpy.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs linux In-reply-to: Message from Cliff Sarginson of "Mon, 22 Jan 2001 06:10:01 +0100." <20010122061001.H1639@raggedclown.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 23:57:57 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Cliff Sarginson writes: > On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 08:54:58PM -0600, David Kelly wrote: > > The majority of Linux users are also Windows users and wear > > Microsoft-colored glasses no matter how much they badmouth Microsoft. > > They continue to build their new land with a Microsoft tint. This may > I don't understand what is meant by this... ? > Both FreeBSD and Linux are amazing achievements..in my view. > > > not be a bad thing, only time will tell. What I mean by "Microsoft tint" is prefaced by "Microsoft-colored glasses". Users who know only of Windows bitch when an OS doesn't do everything the way they are used to. When configuring a foreign system, or writing code for it, they design the user interface after the Microsoft model. And use Microsoft terminology to document. And then complain about how much they hate Microsoft. A small thing but last time I sat at a Linux keyboard "dir" did the DOS thing, by default. Many years ago a conversation with a PC kid was quite memorable. He didn't have the imagination to picture a world without IRQ, DMA, and I/O address jumpers. That he thought there was something magical and absolute about 16 IRQ lines and "all computers must have that." He couldn't understand how the Wintel Plug-n-Play differed from what Apple did in their NuBus Macs. -- 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