From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 29 07:03:11 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE9E7106564A for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 07:03:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from soralx@cydem.org) Received: from pd2mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (idcmail-mo1so.shaw.ca [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EB198FC19 for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 07:03:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from soralx@cydem.org) Received: from pd3mr4so.prod.shaw.ca (pd3mr4so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.180]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0JYH00BOSA5AX060@l-daemon> for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:03:10 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml9so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.7]) by pd3mr4so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0JYH00AF5A5AY410@pd3mr4so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:03:11 -0600 (MDT) Received: from soralx ([24.87.3.133]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0JYH00BLIA59JO50@l-daemon> for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:03:10 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:03:11 -0700 From: soralx@cydem.org In-reply-to: <328844.97931.qm@web35606.mail.mud.yahoo.com> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Message-id: <20080328230311.2d396c4c@soralx> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.0 (GTK+ 2.12.8; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <20080326183554.3f5f43b1.skeptikos@gmail.com> <328844.97931.qm@web35606.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Cc: passiveprofits@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Newbie Question - about newbie user support X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 07:03:11 -0000 > Right. That's interesting to know. I (still) haven't > really got my head around the way BSD is similar and > different to Linux. I keep hearing they are both > Unix-like, but of course, that means nothing to me, > really, yet (though I have some vague sense that > 'Unix' is something to do with mainframes, or some > such?)! http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux2.php Few small things have changed since the time of that article, but the ideas there still seem to be up-to-date (and hopefully will stay that way). [SorAlx] ridin' VS1400