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From: Ron Bickers <rbickers@gemini-new.intercenter.net> Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc References: <slrn5kaf5t.11r.c_chaos@chaosnet.wahnapitae.on.ca> <01bc4136$20f68ec0$78c5a9c6@win95> <3345FD90.4A3@kashmir.net> Lines: 27 X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA 970309; i386 FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE] NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.211.128.115 Message-ID: <3347ce19.0@news.intercenter.net> Date: 6 Apr 97 16:23:53 GMT Organization: The Internet Center, Inc. - Raleigh, NC Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.sgi.com!news-out.microserve.net!news-in.microserve.net!news.paonline.com!news3.paonline.com!news.intercenter.net!gemini-new.intercenter.net!rbickers Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:19875 comp.os.linux.misc:168310 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38581 In comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Zep <zep@kashmir.net> wrote: : Jason Ish wrote: : > : > 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 : Yes, but you're making it sound like that's a good thing! Maybe people : that take things like that for granted shouldn't have one in the first : place. I agree with you that MS did a great job at gearing themselves : toward the average user, but I don't think that people _should_ take : their OS for granted. In my opinion, it's a good thing that setting : up misc. stuff in UNIX can be somewhat complicated. If you don't : already, maybe it will make you stop and think about how your 'puter : works. And that can be a really enlightening experience. Think : about it. How many of our mothers know how a car works under the hood? How many care how it works? How many don't deserve to drive a car because they don't know how it works? I don't like when people don't care how things work, but realize, if we all had to know how everything we use works, we wouldn't use much. --- Ron