From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jan 8 01:02:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA23468 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 01:02:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from lisa.rur.com (G338.257.InterLink.NET [199.202.234.53]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA23463 for ; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 01:02:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from leo@localhost) by lisa.rur.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id EAA09640; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 04:01:42 -0500 Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 04:01:41 -0500 (EST) From: Leo Papandreou To: ywliu cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "FreeBSD ? Never heard before" embarrassment In-Reply-To: <199601081514.PAA24128@neptune.pristine.com.tw> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > Now here comes the embarrassment : when other ISP friends come to visit > us, they would ask what hardware/software we are using. We told them > the hardware was PC. So, they would quickly ask :" Ah, with Linux ?" Who? > I would proudly say "No. FreeBSD !!" They would stare me and asked more : > "What system ? " Sometimes I even had to explain the royal history of > FreeBSD to them, which usually gave them more confusion. > ... > Do you have any experience how to deal with this situation ? Sic SpUnkY on them. Seriously ( :-) :-( ;-) ;-( - whatever), I used to run Linux, but the chicks, they seem to prefer FreeBSD so who are we to argue, eh?