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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?)
Date: 23 Mar 1997 20:29:01 GMT
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mooose@netcom.com (Fred Kilner) wrote:

>  I just alway
> assumed that since free BSD was from berkeley that the daemon
> would always be asking for money and there would be lots of

Yes, of course, it does!  That made us so poor already we have to give
away the system for free.  We couldn't afford it otherwise!

> garbage between the xwindows and it would be hard to find 
> place on the screen to park a window.

Nah, there's always a small corner right on the top where you can park
a window.  The only restriction is, this window must not be larger
than the usualy `xbiff' one.

> I'm sure i'd get tired of
> the tie-die x-windows background real fast but i guess i could
> change that. Aren't all the commands in esperanto? I think

For sure.  That's one of the major goals of our internationalization
meister, Andrey Chernov.  He had to speak Russian all the time, and
can't really stand the American tongue either, so he now started to
translate all the command names into Esperanto.  This way, each of us
has to learn a little, and the load is distributed.

(For those who still didn't get it: :-)) -- the ObSmiley.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)