Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 18:27:15 -0400 From: KapuT <malartre@aei.ca> To: Rick Hamell <hamellr@polymorph.qcsn.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fanatical Software Devotion Message-ID: <352BF9C3.D4B6A61E@aei.ca> References: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980408141604.17012A-100000@polymorph.qcsn.com>
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Rick Hamell wrote: > As I was reading 'The Complete FreeBSD' by Greg Lehey, I started > to reflect upon what I perceive as fanatism in software. I.e. Windows95 is > just a rip off of MacOS System 7. Linux is the truly free system, FreeBSD > is more stable then Linux, etc. etc. :) Anybody have any insight/personal > feelings on this? Any reason why you are a 'fanatic' of one system versus > another? :) > For me personally, I'm still getting into FreeBSD, but I've always > been intrigued by the thought of a real 'multi-tasking' OS. Having > jumped from the Atari, to the Commodore 64 world, then to a 386 running > Windows 3.1 At that point, my main computer use was always games. Having > played with several Macs along the way, I was always less then impressed > with the whole mouse idea. (That and most the early Macs I played with > never had a color screen.) After being introduced to the world of BBSing I > begun to see the need for a multi-tasking system. My first Unix experience > was with the college computers dial-up shell accounts. Since then, I've > played around with several different UNIX flavors. > It seems to me, that *I* am not as fanatical as some people, which > I attribute to having been exposed early on in my computing use to several > different OSes. But, it still astounds me how many customers I deal with > who have to have Win 3.11 or OS/2, or Win95, or nothing. Any comments? :) > > Rick Hamell Hum, your right, there is a lot of fanatics and what media call "holy war". I have personnaly tryed Win95 and FreeBSD (sorry but I'm lost under FreeBSD :-) Win95 rules the world because its a standard and its in some way *easy*(hum, i dont like it but it came installed on the computer) An OS/2 speciallist say to me than one of the reason OS/2 have lost is because it was not preinstalled on the system. and win95 is *easy* to crash hehehe Its because there is a need of fanatics: why do you think than linux is now the Free system who rulez? There is a lot of fanatics supporter... I have not seen a lot of fanatism with FreeBSD: not a lot of user use it... ***someone know statistic about how many users of FreeBSD?*** ***can we have the Walnut creek statistics*** And there is the secret war with other free-OS (no one will acknowledge you than Linux take parts of the market of FreeBSD-or OpenBSD-NetBSD and other...) I think than right now, FreeBSD is for advanced user, admin and servers operators. Linux is for simple user: it take the win95 market. This is why FreeBSD do not rules the Free market. If you want than ordinary user use FreeBSD: change it for a more easy system for newbie. Like changing the documentation... I think than FreeBSD will loose if they continue in that way... Cya KapuT Sorry for my bad bad bad so ugly english! -- --------------------------------------------------- malartre@aei.ca ICQ #4224434 www.aei.ca/~malartre/ FreeBSD 4 Newbies project Windows_95-B Unix FreeBSD-2.2.5-RELEASE --------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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