From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Feb 19 13:32:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B9761187E for ; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 13:32:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id OAA03717; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 14:32:08 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.1.19990219143045.03fe4700@mail.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 14:32:05 -0700 To: dannyman , Christian Weisgerber From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19990219145800.D4109@stumpy.dannyland.org> References: <7af7uh$dnb$1@mips.rhein-neckar.de> <4.1.19990217095946.00928d20@194.184.65.4> <7af7uh$dnb$1@mips.rhein-neckar.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org And as soon as the immigrants arrive in the country, con men start trying to sell them gold-plated nickels, claiming that they're $5 gold pieces. Funny, but the coins have penguins on them. ;-) --Brett At 02:58 PM 2/19/99 -0600, dannyman wrote: >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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message