From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Mar 29 21: 3:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FB2737B718 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 21:03:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dscheidt@tumbolia.com) Received: from shell-3.enteract.com (dscheidt@shell-3.enteract.com [207.229.143.42]) by mail.enteract.com (8.11.1/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f2U53kN60492; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 23:03:47 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dscheidt@tumbolia.com) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 23:03:45 -0600 (CST) From: David Scheidt X-Sender: dscheidt@shell-3.enteract.com To: Technical Information Cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: How Scientific! In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010329233441.017a4b20@mail.threespace.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Technical Information wrote: : :I don't mind seeing FreeBSD riding the coattails of Linux's increased :popularity. Besides, when someone moderately technical asks me what :FreeBSD is, I'm very likely to mention Linux somewhere in my :explanation. My own first knowledge of FreeBSD came as a result of looking :into various Linux distributions. : :--Chip Morton : Indeed. I've gotten a leeast one person to use FreeBSD by answering the question "Is there a Linux distro that's easy to install, secure, and not a flaming piece of shit?" with "FreeBSD". Lent him my CDs, spent an hour explaining what he'd ha ve to do to get some piece of Linux binary software. FreeBSD has done a good of job of running Linux software as most of the Linux distros I've dealt with -- better than quite a lot of them. I don't know if that should make me happy or sad. David Scheidt -- dscheidt@tumbolia.com Bipedalism is only a fad. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message