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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!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.maxwell.syr.edu!europa.clark.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!ns1.ccinet.net!news From: "Jason Earl" <jearl@box100.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: 7 Apr 1997 23:09:05 GMT Organization: Basic American Foods Lines: 26 Message-ID: <01bc43a8$5006c940$8934e3cc@rx_jearl> References: <33322E84.42877E5C@FreeBSD.org> <859945273snz@tsys.demon.co.uk> <33427370.680B@sap-ag.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.24.41.26 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:168591 comp.os.linux.advocacy:91564 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2950 > > I'd take a summer beer festival over *any* operating system. Mmmm! > > > > -- > > :sb) > > So do I. That is the real European lifestyle some unhappy Quakers > fled from some centuries ago. Yes, we have beer, and yes, we have > summer festivals with picknicks and all that stuff, and it is only > bad chauvinism that it was a European who created the wonderful > OS known as Linux. Feeling as a true European I guess that deep > in Linusī heart there was the wish to free us from American OSses;-) > Did he not do his job marvellously? BTW years ago we had a lot of > fun at a picknick being equipped with lots of rolls of paper tape > and lots of beer (took some hours to remove the traces). > -jo > Well, I am not a beer drinker, and not from Europe, but if using Linux qualifies you for the "true European experience" then sign me up :). -- Jason Earl jearl@box100.com "Cheaper than the Psychic Friends Network."