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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:4181 alt.folklore.computers:68147 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!newshost.marcam.com!news.mathworks.com!hookup!nic.hookup.net!not-for-mail From: mike@muise.hookup.net (mike muise) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: BSD sluggish compared to Linux? Date: 22 Nov 1994 17:12:03 -0500 Organization: Mike's Carnival of Whimsy Lines: 41 Message-ID: <3atqbj$9u5@muise.hookup.net> References: <3am248$7kv@itu1.sun.ac.za> <jsmCzKHK8.Ev1@netcom.com> <3ao31t$9fo@itu1.sun.ac.za> <1994Nov21.000855.124757@slate.mines.colorado.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: muise.hookup.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] : : : Whatta maroon. : : No, sir, I am getting exactly what I wanted; email telling me the exact : : relative merits of both OSes from both points of view. It's the effects, : : not the causes, that count .... try it sometime when you want the whole : : story behind something; it really works! : It is very dishonest for you to do so. If you wanted the relative : merits of both OSes, then just ask for it. Making other people : go through flamebaits to satisfy your needs is pretty disgusting. Why are you folks being such jerks about this? Getting accurate information on any religious issue is a non-trivial feat, and this guy has pulled it off without starting a flame war. He made the mistake of posting both queries from the same account, but hey, no one's perfect. You can't, as the previous poster suggested, "just ask for it" on the relevant group, because no one will bother to reply. You can't crosspost to both relevant groups with an innocent question like "which one is better?" without starting a month-long "discussion" that quickly degenerates into which OS's penis is longer. So how do you do it? There's no FAQ on the subject, there's no obvious way to extract info from the newsgroup, so you use a bit of cleverness and foreknowledge of people's attitudes to get them to give you some opinions. There's no gun to the heads of those who respond, and he's not spamming any groups with repeated pleas for data. That kind of ingenuity -- to look beyond the obvious to solve a problem -- has always typified the kind of people who make the best programmers, hackers, engineers, philosophers and free-thinkers. And it's always frightened the kind of people who make the best pasty-faced computer geeks. 'Nuff said. mike muise@hookup.net