Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:44:42 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Old Ranger <ranger@oldpathsbaptistchurch.org> Cc: Branko Vukelic <bg.branko@gmail.com>, "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hello! Message-ID: <20070820194442.GC45885@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <46C9C2F3.6070109@oldpathsbaptistchurch.org> References: <3ef409db0708170651v365f51dfib643ae0d91a6a700@mail.gmail.com> <46C64727.9060000@crackmonkey.us> <d7195cff0708192141w1d3d496enb2f8f997686efee9@mail.gmail.com> <46C9C2F3.6070109@oldpathsbaptistchurch.org>
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On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 10:36:03AM -0600, Old Ranger wrote: > illoai@gmail.com wrote: > >On 17/08/07, Adam J Richardson <fatman@crackmonkey.us> wrote: > > > >>Branko Vukelic wrote: > >> > >>>Hi, > >>> > >>>My name is Branko (a.k.a. FoxBunny in some circles). Until recently I > >>>was a > >>>Arch Linux > >>>user, and decided to give FreeBSD a try, for a better desktop experience. > >>>Thanks to the DesktopBSD project (BIG THANKS!) I'm now running FreeBSD > >>>on my > >>>box (or is it proper to call DesktopBSD a FreeBSD?). > >>> > >>>I must say I am most impressed by how all this works, from development to > >>>final touches, to actually running and using it. I'm looking forward to > >>>getting involved in the whole BSD scene. > >>> > >>>Nice meeting (sort of) you all! > >>> > >>>Best regards, > >>> > >>>Branko > >>> > >>Hi Branko! > >> > >>I guess it's like comparing an Alsatian [FreeBSD] to a Spaniel > >>[DesktopBSD]: they're very different, but both are still dogs. However > >>NetBSD is a cat and Windows is a fish. > >> > >>Feel free to play with my sophisticated model of operating system > >>development, anyone. > >> > >>Maybe I shouldn't have compared FreeBSD to a dog. Whoops. Sorry all. > >> > > > >If netbsd is a cat, and oh!ess!ten is variously a panther, tiger, > >puma, (pard? olestra?), openbsd is a fish (and some damned > >anthropomorphic lips), probably freebsd is really a 1938 > >pontiac, and windows is a cow-duck hybrid with post-it notes > >stapled to its spine (or maybe that transporter accident from > >Star Trek: Der Movin' Picture!). > > > > > From a pilot's point of view: > FreeBSD is an F-4 Phantom. > Mac is a P-38 Trainer. > Windows is a DC-10. (with a hydraulic leak) ////jerry > > Grins, > > ZWH > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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