Another reason to like FreeBSD

[clayton rollins]

>on Fri, 02 May 2003 11:15:14 Jesus Cash <jesuscash at cox.net> wrote:
>
>Also it seems lately tha the major distributions of Linux are full of 
>bloat, not getting to be much different than Windows. I have a P100 laptop 
>I use for writing and some times some Nintendo emulation. I tried loading 
>Red Hat 9 on it, stripping it down of course... But it wouldn't even let me 
>do that. Just flat out said no way, your system sucks.
>
>Where I work there's a group of people some of us call the Cult of Gentoo. 
>While one of them is just doing it to fit in (the guy can hardly tech 
>Windows, which is our job), they all talk about about Gentoo's ease of use 
>compared to the other distros and other *NIX kernels, their arguements 
>inevitably lead to Gentoo's "emerge" function. I keep telling them that 
>FreeBSD has two very similar systems of installing programs, and it does it 
>about the same, downloading dependencies automatically. Not too sure if 
>Gentoo patches itself either. Not to mention I didn't have to go through 
>some huge set-up to get FreeBSD running AND FreeBSD actually detected my 
>NIC, which Gentoo didn't. Another guy at work and I are just getting into 
>FreeBSD and already we've had less issues than the guys that have been 
>running Gentoo since they first put it out. One of these days I'm gonna log 
>into "The Cult's" computers and change their desktop wallpapers to BSD 
>centric images.
>
>Viva La Revolution! :P
>
>-B
>
>P.S.
>I know there may still be some linux ethusists out there on this list, this 
>is nothing against you or Linux, it's against just some of the kernel's 
>followers. I'm sure there are some who can argue this better than they can 
>and beat me, but eh... I'm only defending my kernel of choice from the 
>uninformed. After all, despite "The Cult's" presence, I still take all the 
>Linux calls.
>
(snip)

If you want to be outright mean, try the logo from 
http://www.linuxisforbitches.com/ (a site devoted to poking fun at LUsers 
like your 'cult')

Peace,
Clayton


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