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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!ieunet!maths.tcd.ie!not-for-mail From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Slight flame from Linux user Date: 12 Jun 1995 13:40:57 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Lines: 37 Message-ID: <3rhckp$3n6@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <3qq5i8$2jj@anshar.shadow.net> <3qqotb$sla@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie> <D9nMI9.Lys@midway.uchicago.edu> <D9pJBs.KG4@plato.ds.boeing.com> <GPALMER.95Jun7001333@westhill.cdrom.com> <3r4f25$c5j@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie> <3r9t63$31c@anshar.shadow.net> <3rboo0$q5j@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie> <3rg9jv$2qf@pandora.sdsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: hamilton.maths.tcd.ie larryr@saturn.sdsu.edu (Larry Riedel) writes: >> I don't even believe there is such an animal >> as a "unix install & admin" any more. >> There are people who run Unix on their PCs, >> and there are people who run DOS/Windows. >So the people running Unix on their PCs are doing everything that >animal used to do? Or are the things that animal used to do not >done at all any more? You don't have to be a Ken Thompson to run Linux or FreeBSD on your 486 at home. In my experience it is no more difficult than DOS/Windows, and is more rewarding. I don't know why so many people on this group spend their time telling the world how difficult FreeBSD is. I never read that kind of thing on the Linux groups. >What does "multi-user" mean? Is a mail hub a >"multi-user" machine? Is a terminal server a "multi-user" machine? Is >a router or a gateway a "multi-user" machine? Is a database server a >"multi-user" machine? Is a firewall a "multi-user" machine? Is a USENET >news server a "multi-user" machine? Is a WWW server a "multi-user" >machine? Is an FTP server a "multi-user" machine? Is a LAN or a WAN a >"multi-user" machine? Is a DNS server a "multi-user" machine? Are any >of these "multi-user" machines? Are there getting to be fewer of them? All these (I think) are just as likely to be running on DOS/Windows networks, so do not show that Unix is inherently more difficult than its rivals. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland