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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!tcsi.tcs.com!uunet!mr.net!winternet.com!skypoint.com!cyberoptics.com!bpeters!not-for-mail From: peterson@bpeters.cyber.mn.org (Bruce Peterson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Slight flame from Linux user Date: 25 Jun 1995 16:20:27 -0500 Organization: Individual Lines: 39 Message-ID: <3skjur$otu@bpeters.cyber.mn.org> References: <3ql3gd$je2@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <3qqotb$sla@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie> <D9nMx6.FB1@citylink.dinoex.sub.org> <3s3g68$d0i@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bpeters.uucp In article <3s3g68$d0i@agate.berkeley.edu>, Nick Kralevich <nickkral@sextans.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote: >Wow, I feel the exact same way when I watch my FreeBSD friend >installing all sorts of software that didn't come with the system. >Or when I was trying to debug a program I didn't have source for, and >didn't have access to fine Linux tools like "strace". > >I've had nothing but good luck with my Linux system, and nothing but >bad luck trying to help my roommate with his FreeBSD system. >Go figure. > Boy this sounds familiar... I haven't had any problems running MSDOS/MSWindows, but I haven't been able to help to my friend who is running Linux. He tells me there is supposed to be a window system (I think he called it "X"), but it complained when I typed "cd\windows". None of the other commands I tried worked, either. Go figure. Actually, I don't run MS-anything, but FreeBSD, and haven't had any problems except when first setting up file system quotas. But I do look up commands that work on the system, and don't go around complaining that the system is inadequate because everything isn't the same as some other system that I might be more comfortable with. >Take care, >-- Nick Kralevich > nickkral@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu > >-- >LINUX, the FREE | University of California at | Nick Kralevich >Operating System of the | Berkeley. Department of | nickkral@cory.eecs. >future available via anon | Electrical Engineering and | berkeley.edu >FTP. Ask me about it. | Computer Science. | finger for PGP -- Bruce Peterson - peterson@cyberoptics.com FreeBSD, the FREE Operating System that is stable NOW (and has been for a long time)!