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From: Roeland Th. Jansen <bengel@grobbebol.xs4all.nl>
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?)
Date: 14 Apr 1997 15:03:20 -0000
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In alt.os.linux Tim Smith <tzs@halcyon.com> wrote:
> 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 bt a few basic skills do come in handy sometimes...

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