Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 22:21:30 -0700 From: jehova <tornadox@telnor.net> To: Sanjay Bhattacharya <sanbh@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Long live The Penguin!!!![Out of Topic go to freebsd-newbies] Message-ID: <200206252221.30406.tornadox@telnor.net> In-Reply-To: <00d201c21cbd$3b9ff2d0$1ba8c8cb@corrsl7vs6l3tz> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0206251236040.24044-100000@kramer.thekramers.net> <20020625120402.A7861@cygnus.wks.Gallup.cia-g.com> <00d201c21cbd$3b9ff2d0$1ba8c8cb@corrsl7vs6l3tz>
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opinions discusions and 'personal feelings'about OS cause FLAMES, on a technical list. newbies list is fine. read for what is freebsd-newbies. read this: http://www.lemis.com/questions.html (it contains this) [...] If the question is of a general nature, first check whether this isn't a Frequently Asked Question (FAQ). There's a list of these questions at http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ.html, and also on your own system (once you've installed it) at /usr/share/doc/FAQ/FAQ.html. Check there, and if you don't find an answer, ask FreeBSD-questions. Examples might be questions about installing FreeBSD or the use of a particular UNIX utility. [...] ------>If you're new to FreeBSD, and the message is about your own ------>relationship to FreeBSD, send the message to Freebsd-newbies [...] On Tuesday 25 June 2002 19:57, Sanjay Bhattacharya wrote: > Please guys (the anti Penguin lobby), relax. I've been making my > bread and butter out of Linux for the last 3 years. And I am a > Sun Certified System Administrator. Still I've chosen my work > field to be Linux. Why? Because I am in love with the penguin. > As for me I haven't found anything that's drastically wrong as > it always happens with Winblows. On the contrary there are > revolutionary changes in 2.4 series kernels. One that has made > my life a lot easier is certianly netfilter/iptables. And as for > the libc problem, a little caution always saved my from big > hassles. I am sort of a newbie to FreeBSD. But one thing I > dislike about it is ipfw. Its so complicated. In contrast > iptables in Linux is a pleasure to use. Apart from that > upgrading Linux kernel is an easy task. I always patch my kernel > with the latest updates and then I compile it. It runs like a > dream. And believe me, I haven't faced a single problem in the > last three years. But one thing I always avoid is rpm's. You > might call me an old timer but I've my faith on the sources. And > the configure/make/make install/ has always given me what I > wanted. And to say nothing of the device recognition > capabilities of the Linux kernel. I thank my lucky stars again > and again that I don't have to bother about the HCL, thanks to > Linux. So I think the Penguin is doing a great job. And under no > circumstances it is inferior to the daemon. I want to conclude > with the slogan ..."In Penguin I trust". > > rgds, > Sanjay > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ __ Jehova _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \/ \ tornadox@telnor.net _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | | FreeBSD!!! _ |___/___/___/ \/ () To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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