*BSD News Article 92826


Return to BSD News archive

Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.uoregon.edu!xmission!xmission!not-for-mail
From: klaus@xmission.com@editme.first
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 18:08:23 -0700
Organization: Spam Abatement Technologies
Lines: 24
Sender: klaus@xmission.xmission.com
Message-ID: <5i48m7$hsv@xmission.xmission.com>
References: <slrn5kaf5t.11r.c_chaos@chaosnet.wahnapitae.on.ca> <01bc4136$20f68ec0$78c5a9c6@win95> <5i47ee$iqk$1@mark.ucdavis.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: xmission.xmission.com
Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:19799 comp.os.linux.misc:168053 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38474

In comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc ~{#@HNNRRy#@~} <cweng@taco.engr.ucdavis.edu> wrote:
> Wait a minute man!  You make it sounds like UNIX is only for people 
> majoring computer science.  I don't have a degree in computer science 
> since i was majoring EE and my concentration area was signal processing.  
> So what? It didn't stop me using UNIX or taking some CS classes as my 
> electives.  Even thought now I am working on my Ph.D in digital signal 
> processing, I am still taking some CS classes(even though some of them 
> are just useless to me.) for fun.  And I was able to use linux/freebsd at 
> home.  What is the big deal with installing some operating systems and 
> being able to use it?

Most people can't set the clock on their VCR. That's why they all flash
12:00.

-klaus

-- 
This .sig is in tribute to post parsing, spam generating, software:

postmaster@127.0.0.1
cgn@ix.netcom.com
clubmail@freestuff4u.com
ballman@ibm.net
p.marcus@inetarm.com