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#! rnews 1760 bsd 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!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!news.maxwell.syr.edu!ott.istar!istar!news.istar.net!van-bc!news.mindlink.net!nntp.portal.ca!news.bc.net!rover.ucs.ualberta.ca!mongol.sasknet.sk.ca!news@mongol.sasknet.sk.ca From: "Jason Ish" <jbi130@mail.usask.ca> Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Date: 4 Apr 1997 20:21:59 GMT Organization: SaskNet News Distribution Lines: 16 Message-ID: <01bc4136$20f68ec0$78c5a9c6@win95> References: <slrn5kaf5t.11r.c_chaos@chaosnet.wahnapitae.on.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: dial197120.wbm.ca X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1161 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:19757 comp.os.linux.misc:167930 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38416 > And that is the thing I most like about free un!x. > I control how the program is installed. I change some things about > it to adapt it to my setup. MS want you to do the reverse. I find > that quite arrogant. Take a minute here and think about the 'average computer user.' MS has been great at getting ordinary people to use a computer, even tho if it is for future marketing. Does the average user really care where their programs are installed. I do a lot of service at people's homes and they don't even know Windows 95 is an OS. They just take it for granted that it runs their programs. Never have I seen a Unix system that can be taken for granted - ie, setting up modems and stuff has to be done very explicitly. Maybe there are some Unix's out there that can be taken for granted but I'm only a 2nd year CS student and haven't seen one yet. Jason