[geeks] The best things in the world

Geoffrey S. Mendelson gsm at mendelson.com
Thu Sep 11 23:53:52 CDT 2008


On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 05:37:23PM -0400, Joshua Boyd wrote:
>If I had heard of NetBSD instead of linux in 1995, who knows what I
>would think now?  But I didn't hear of NetBSD, and if I did, it may have
>taken a long time to get NetBSD, since I got linux by buying a cd at a
>computer show.  I'd been reading about Unix for years and had just been
>able to start using Solaris over a dial up, and so I was extremely
>excited when I saw linux and was able to get linux for home.

You went to the wrong vendor. Right next to him was someone selling a
CD with 2 versions of BSD, and 3 or 4 distrbutions of Linux. Guess which
one had more features, was more stable, more mature and so on.........

Geoff.

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Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel gsm at mendelson.com  N3OWJ/4X1GM



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