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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!torn!news1.bellglobal.com!bellglobal.com!c_chaos From: c_chaos@chaosnet.wahnapitae.on.ca (Andrew Costa) Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Date: 6 Apr 1997 00:24:54 GMT Organization: Haywire Engineering Lines: 37 Message-ID: <slrn5kdrbe.78.c_chaos@chaosnet.wahnapitae.on.ca> References: <slrn5kaf5t.11r.c_chaos@chaosnet.wahnapitae.on.ca> <01bc4136$20f68ec0$78c5a9c6@win95> <5i47ee$iqk$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> <5i4odm$gnc$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu> <87k9mhsteq.fsf@plm.xs4all.nl> Reply-To: seagull@osiris.isys.ca NNTP-Posting-Host: annex1-port16.isys.ca X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.3.2 UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:19898 comp.os.linux.misc:168374 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38612 In article <87k9mhsteq.fsf@plm.xs4all.nl>, Peter Mutsaers wrote: >>> On 5 Apr 1997 05:36:54 GMT, Giao Nguyen <grail@functional.com> said: > > GN> : Wait a minute man! You make it sounds like UNIX is only for people > GN> : majoring computer science. I don't have a degree in > GN> computer science > > GN> Count one biology major in as a Unix weenie. Discovered it my > GN> freshman year in college and can't seem to ween myself off of > GN> it. > >Count my wife, a pharmacist who has never had any computer education >nor doesn't like them. But she'll prefer to use Latex on Unix to write >letters or reports (using emacs as text editor) above Windows with >MS-Word (and she has access to both). How about an electronics engineer? Or is that too close to CS? :) >The idea that non computer professionals or freaks are the only ones >that could like Unix is pure prejudice, and is something that >a.o. Microsoft wants everybody to believe. It is just not true, but >too many don't even try to teach using the Unix environment to >computer illiterates because they have been brainwashed. What's truly disturbing, to me at least, is some college IT courses don't teach unix either! My college was MS-happy. Windows windows windows dos windows windows and, oh, a little bit of VMS. No unix whatsoever. Their explanation was, unix doesn't count because it's just about dead and will be finished once NT really catches on. My final project, in the Electronics course, involved a Linux based server (that I set up from scratch) that was to become the electronics departmental server. The IT department wouldn't let it on the college network: considered it a security threat. Wouldn't budge no matter what. It was unix, they wanted no part of it. Unbiased and educational, huh?