Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 00:15:44 +0200 (MESZ) From: Rainer M Duffner <Rainer.Duffner@konstanz.netsurf.de> To: Russ Paton <russ@l-p-b-central.demon.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Windoze vs FreeBSD Message-ID: <Marcel-1.45-0620221544-0b0Zsav@duffner.konstanz.netsurf.de> In-Reply-To: <19980620175839.21109@l-p-b-central.demon.co.uk>
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On Sat 20 Jun, Russ Paton wrote: > Apparently David Wolfskill once scribbled: > > >Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 23:28:41 -0400 (EDT) > > >From: James <dominus@minos.dyn.ml.org> > > Well, as a UNIX sysadmin, it's my job to make sure things like that are > > set up for my colleagues. > > > > >How many people ask questions about setting them up? What about just X > > >alone? > > > > People always ask for help with something that they do not understand, it > is part of human nature...I don't see that it is a problem if I am asked or > need to ask for help. And people are _not_ buying truck-loads of 'Windows-annoyance', Windows95-easy, Win95-god-knows-what-books, are they ? !! If Win95 & NT was sooo easy, why would anybody spend money on those 99% worthless books ? Why would anybody pay those ridiculous sums for MCSE ? Naaa, it's all so easy - point and click.... > Another major plus for X is it's ability to run reasonably well on low spec > machines. Or to have a full OS, without a GUI..... I like to boot the Win95-PCs at our computer-lab with the PicoBSD boot-floppy and turn them into little FreeBSDs ;-) At least, a stable telnet implementation ! cheers, Rainer -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |Rainer Duffner, E-Mail: duffner@fh-konstanz.de | | & Rainer.Duffner@konstanz.netsurf.de | |Fachhochschule Konstanz, Germany | |"What's a Network ?" - Bill Gates, early 1980s | | WWW:http://www-stud.fh-konstanz.de/~duffner | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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