From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Nov 19 8: 2:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.va.home.com (ha1.rdc1.va.home.com [24.2.32.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C45537B479; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 08:02:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from home.com ([24.5.226.113]) by mail.rdc1.va.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20001119160249.NPGT12834.mail.rdc1.va.home.com@home.com>; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 08:02:49 -0800 Message-ID: <3A181624.B8EDA559@home.com> Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 10:04:20 -0800 From: Christian Ambrose X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lanny Baron , chat@freebsd.org, advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Good BSD press in feedmag References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I think the authors do know, but they just don't think of it in those terms. Lanny Baron wrote: > > Hi, > I scanned the article quickly. I personally think they (the writer(s) of > the article should find out the difference between a hacker and a craker. > > --lnb > > On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, opentrax@email.com in the last wild and more than...: > > > > > > >On 16 Nov, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > >> > >> > >> "The underground's latest heroes are the directors of software > >> projects based on 4.4 BSD Lite, the free operating system pioneered at > >> the University of California at Berkeley in the late 1970s. The gratis > >> software churned out by projects like FreeBSD and OpenBSD is > >> inarguably superior to most mainstream Linux distributions, both in > >> terms of security and portability." > >> > >I read the article, as much as I could stand. > >While the article is about DefCon and takes more time to > >illustrate Theo De Raadt as a hacker, it's difficult to read. > >Mostly it seems from the authors need to educate us on > >large words that barely fit into the article. That and run-on > >sentences and scretching the grammer where barely plausible. > > > >I guess I should be the last to speak as sometime my > >rant extend into nothing-ness. Hence, read this after at least > >a good cup of coffee or a six-pack of Jolt. > > > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message