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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!news-xfer.netaxs.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!worldnet.att.net!uunet!in3.uu.net!206.250.118.17!nntp.earthlink.net!usenet From: "Kyle D. Hodgson" <KyleHodgson@poboxes.com> Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 00:11:22 -0500 Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc. Lines: 29 Message-ID: <33530DFA.71D6@poboxes.com> References: <slrn5kaf5t.11r.c_chaos@chaosnet.wahnapitae.on.ca> <01bc4136$20f68ec0$78c5a9c6@win95> <3345FD90.4A3@kashmir.net> <5ipv9f$itd$1@halcyon.com> Reply-To: KyleHodgson@poboxes.com NNTP-Posting-Host: ip166.kansas-city3.mo.pub-ip.psi.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:20182 comp.os.linux.misc:169786 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39081 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? > > --Tim Smith well, I kind of like to think about those things. I don't go to university to study them, or spend long hours in a library. But I *do* tend to think aout thermodynamics when I open a fridge. Is MSwin going the way of the mac? "How's it work?" [reply:]"Don't ask, don't tell!" Not to insult mac. I kinda liked the win95=mac84 joke...:) -- ______________________________________________________ Kyle D. Hodgson mailto:KyleHodgson@poboxes.com