Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 10:39:06 -0400 (EDT) From: "matthew c. mead" <mmead@Glock.COM> To: juphoff@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu (Jeff Uphoff) Cc: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, chat@freebsd.org, pmurphy@nrao.edu Subject: Re: [Forwarded e-mail from Alexander O. Yuriev] Message-ID: <199605061439.KAA04427@neon.Glock.COM> In-Reply-To: <199605061306.JAA05982@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu> from "Jeff Uphoff" at May 6, 96 09:06:51 am
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Jeff Uphoff writes: > "mcm" == matthew c mead <mmead@Glock.COM> writes: > mcm> I think it was a comparison to Bill Gates... I seem to > mcm> recall being forwarded that too... :-) > There must be two then; I just found this one in one of my quotes files: > "I think Linus is cuter than that stupid thing with the pitch-fork." > > I won't attribute the quote since I don't want to get that person into > hot water too (he's one of the well-known Linux hackers). :)~ Hehe! I think I might have been mistaken as I can't find it in my folder containing correspondence with you. Maybe you just told it to me on the phone or something - it seems damn familiar. > mcm> Awwww, come on! I had to! The FreeBSD chat mailing list > mcm> exists for such general chat and frivolous posting purposes! > Sounds like the linux-kernel list sometimes; I've seen higher valid > content ratios on IRC channels. Is it not moderated? > mcm> I don't get that either. I usually tell people I > mcm> recommend FreeBSD because of certain things, but then tell them > mcm> if there are certain other things they want to do or don't want > mcm> to wait for, they should stick with Linux. Most people end up > mcm> installing what most of their friends have anyway, which, around > mcm> here these days, tends to be Linux. You gotta go with your > mcm> strongest peer support network. > 100% agreed. > If someone is fairly new to UNIX, I usually recommend Linux to them > since they'll normally have an easier time finding friends that can help > them, and there are a *lot* of Linux books (though only a few really > good ones) available at most decent bookstores now. There's also Red > Hat, which makes installation, admin., and upgrading a relative breeze. > (When I recommend Linux I usually recommend Red Hat.) > If they're already UNIX veterans, I'll normally recommend that they try > both OS's and then stick with the one they like better. (Personally, I > tried 386BSD before trying Linux since I was already a SunOS user....) I ran linux for a couple months back when it was .96p8 - back when you had to build your own distribution. I got sick of not having a true slip connection and switched to good old 386bsd 0.0. I actually ran that for over a year before I switched back to linux when its slip was fairly decent. Once I finally got sick of linux again, I switched to FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 and haven't switched since... :-) > One nice thing about the FreeBSD world is that it has one "distribution" > so the confusion factor is often a great deal lower; there're no "which > FreeBSD should I try?" type questions.... IMHO, that's one of the most compelling reasons to use FreeBSD. > mcm> And I thought Pat was running up the mailq's. Hehe. > mcm> He's told me horror stories about yours. > I've done `mailq | wc -l` before and seen numbers well into the tens of > thousands before.... <groan> Anyone know offhand what the mailq on freefall looks like? :-) -matt -- Matthew C. Mead mmead@Glock.COM http://www.Glock.COM/~mmead/
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