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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!nntp.portal.ca!news.bc.net!unixg.ubc.ca!rover.ucs.ualberta.ca!news.agtac.net!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: 6 Apr 1997 02:36:25 GMT Organization: SaskNet News Distribution Lines: 15 Message-ID: <01bc4233$9a435300$cfc5a9c6@win95> References: <slrn5kaf5t.11r.c_chaos@chaosnet.wahnapitae.on.ca> <01bc4136$20f68ec0$78c5a9c6@win95> <5i47ee$iqk$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> <5i4odm$gnc$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu> <87k9mhsteq.fsf@plm.xs4all.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: dial197207.wbm.ca X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1161 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:19830 comp.os.linux.misc:168154 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38513 > The idea that non computer professionals or freaks are the only ones > that could like Unix is pure prejudice, and is something that > a.o. Microsoft wants everybody to believe. It is just not true, but > too many don't even try to teach using the Unix environment to > computer illiterates because they have been brainwashed. Never intended this to turn out from my posting. But give a neophyte a Win95 cd and a Linux or FreeBSD cdrom and which to you think he/she will be using a week from now. Not saying that Unix is meant for majors in Comp. Sci. But Windows is the only alternative for a lot of people who really don't care how their computer does what it does, but just does it. I only started using Unix cause I wanted to learn more about what it does. But won't drop Windows or Mac for graphics or web publishing.