From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jul 27 11:14:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D8D814E4F for ; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 11:14:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: from kilt.nothing-going-on.org (kilt.nothing-going-on.org [192.168.1.18]) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id TAA76720 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 19:06:44 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik@catkin.nothing-going-on.org) Received: (from nik@localhost) by kilt.nothing-going-on.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA12558 for chat@freebsd.org; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 13:38:35 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik@catkin.nothing-going-on.org) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 13:38:35 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Describing FreeBSD Message-ID: <19990727133835.E535@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i Organization: Nik at home, where there's nothing going on Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I was at a friend's house the other night, sorting out various bits and pieces, which included at one point booting up my FreeBSD laptop (which drops in to X, running fvwm95. This friend's brother pokes his head around the door, and sees the fvwm screen. The conversion then went. Brother: Hey, what's that? [ Peers at the screen ] Brother: Is that Windows 98? Me : No, this is FreeBSD. Brother: What's that? Friend : You know what a Macintosh is, right? Well, it's almost exactly unlike one of those. Well, it made me smile. N ... FreeBSD: Almost exactly unlike a Macintosh. -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message