[geeks] The best things in the world

[Joshua Boyd]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 03:23:43PM -0400, nate at portents.com wrote:

> I knew about the BSDs well before Linux mostly because I was a Mac user
> well before I ever used PCs, and NetBSD was around and supporting 68k Macs
> well before Linux ever did.  I've watched Linux get unnecessary attention
> since 1993, when I was very surprised to see the enthusiasm other early
> college kids had for it.  I was also surprised to learn upon re-visiting
> my college around 2000 that they were replacing their SGI workstations in
> the computer science computer labs with PCs running Linux, and when I
> asked one of the CS lab admins why they didn't choose one of the BSDs, he
> said "because students were more familiar with and excited about Linux."

I was really disappointed when my school (in the middle of my stay there
no less) replaced their Sun workstations with PCs running Windows and
PCs running linux.