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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news 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 Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 34 Message-ID: <5h43qd$ii7@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <332c9a76.3278270@news.adelaide.on.net> <01bc32f2$3783f300$04000001@colin> <E79F14.n7z@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de> <moooseE79KnF.LLI@netcom.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:19367 comp.os.linux.misc:166161 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37633 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. ;-)