From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Feb 19 12:58: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from stumpy.dannyland.org (danman.isdn.uiuc.edu [192.17.16.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7362B118B1 for ; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 12:57:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dannyman@stumpy.dannyland.org) Received: (qmail 4578 invoked by uid 1000); 19 Feb 1999 20:58:00 -0000 Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 14:58:00 -0600 From: dannyman To: Christian Weisgerber Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Message-ID: <19990219145800.D4109@stumpy.dannyland.org> References: <4.1.19990217095946.00928d20@194.184.65.4> <7af7uh$dnb$1@mips.rhein-neckar.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <7af7uh$dnb$1@mips.rhein-neckar.de>; from Christian Weisgerber on Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 09:14:09PM +0100 X-Loop: djhoward@uiuc.edu X-URL: http://www.dannyland.org/~dannyman/ Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 09:14:09PM +0100, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Actually, nowadays people have only vague ideas about Linux, arrive in a > shop, and want the Linux operating system. Unix? Huh? Oh, it's Linux > compatible? Linux has a lot of press, even in the idiot PC rags, and > many users from the Wintel universe who pick up on it have no idea of > the Unix universe at all. I look at it all as a metaphor for 19th Century American Immigration. Alright, I'm a Chicagoan. Most of the huddled masses of Windows users from the backward old country of Microsoft are riding over on their CDROMs. Linux is New York, and when the newbies see that Giant Penguin statue greeting them to the promised land, they think the Big Red Hat Apple of New Linux York is it. The smart ones though, hop on a train to Chicago. Some of us knew somebody in FreeBSD and so we skipped around the Big Red Hat Apple altogether and think that someday when we've got a spare PC, we'll take a trip to visit the Giant Penguin that is doing our Great Free Nation so much good in bringing us good users. Alright, it's not a great metaphor, but I like it. :) -danny -- dannyman - http://www.dannyland.org/~dannyman/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message