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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!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsfeeds.sol.net!europa.clark.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!sprint!EU.net!chsun!news.eunet.ch!usenet From: Tim Tassonis <timtas@webshuttle.ch> Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 22:15:39 +0200 Organization: EUnet AG Lines: 25 Message-ID: <33513EEB.828D882@webshuttle.ch> References: <slrn5kaf5t.11r.c_chaos@chaosnet.wahnapitae.on.ca> <01bc4136$20f68ec0$78c5a9c6@win95> <3345FD90.4A3@kashmir.net> <5ipv9f$itd$1@halcyon.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dyna-wt-42.dial.eunet.ch Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; Linux 2.0.30 i486) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:20150 comp.os.linux.misc:169648 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39035 Tim Smith wrote: > > 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? > No, but it's not a bad thing when people driving a car know where the brakes are and what they do. It's also good to know you shouldn't put a screwdriver in your electric plug. Or that you shouldn't dry your poodle in your microwave, but that's another story. Bye Tim