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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!news.bbnplanet.com!ais.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!206.63.63.70!nwnews.wa.com!brokaw.wa.com!not-for-mail From: tzs@halcyon.com (Tim Smith) Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Date: 12 Apr 1997 23:42:55 -0700 Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. Lines: 18 Message-ID: <5ipv9f$itd$1@halcyon.com> References: <slrn5kaf5t.11r.c_chaos@chaosnet.wahnapitae.on.ca> <01bc4136$20f68ec0$78c5a9c6@win95> <3345FD90.4A3@kashmir.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: coho.halcyon.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:20118 comp.os.linux.misc:169490 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38989 In article <3345FD90.4A3@kashmir.net>, Zep <zep@kashmir.net> wrote: >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. Do you apply this same standard to all tools? For instance, should people need to understand something about how petroleum is refined before they put gas in their cars? Should one need to know thermodynamics in order to make one's refrigerator get colder? Should one be conversant in rim flushes and siphon jets before one flushes one's toilet? --Tim Smith