From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 14 04:29:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA22416 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 04:29:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ninbox.ml.org (host77-34.airnet.net [209.64.77.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA22398 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 11:29:20 GMT (envelope-from kris@airnet.net) Received: from airnet.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ninbox.ml.org (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA13717 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 06:27:30 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <35334822.EAC1D39D@airnet.net> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 06:27:30 -0500 From: Kris Kirby Organization: Absolutely None! X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Geez -- Linux, Linux everywhere... References: <199804140110.UAA04014@nospam.hiwaay.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org David Kelly wrote: > > Sean Harding writes: > > > > Most of the "Linux users" (maybe lusers) I know are surprisingly clueless. > > I was once of the belief that if someone is smart enough to shun Microsoft > > (all hail the King) and install Linux, they must be relatively clued--even > > if they don't agree with my OS choice. But I know a huge number of people > > who run Linux, and don't even *try* to learn about it. They alias 'ls' to > > 'dir,' run as root all the time and use the GUI admin tools for > > everything. > > That reminds me of one of the things that bugged me about Slackware and/ > or SLS Linux many years ago - first thing I had to do after an install > is remove those #%$^@ pre-installed DOSism aliases. > Funny, after installing FreeBSD I found it necessary to write DOS batchfiles to perform the DOS equivalent of the UN*X command. The tendency to type "ls -la" is so strong.... :-) -- Kris Kirby ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message