RE: Linux move to FreeBSD (Beastie vs Penguin)

2005-07-06 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Danny Pansters Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 6:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux move to FreeBSD (Beastie vs Penguin) On Wednesday 6 July 2005 03:06, Mike Hauber

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-06 Thread David Gerard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050703 23:08]: FreeBSD looks like a good stating place for me, but one think about FreeBSD makes me uncomfortable is the symbol/emblem that the OS uses. That is a devil ! I would like to know if possible how this came about, and what thinking was behind

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD (Beastie vs Penguin)

2005-07-06 Thread Bob Hall
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 11:43:07PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: 30 years from now they will probably try for bestiality marriage Beastie getting married? Be still my heart! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
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Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-05 Thread Mike Brown
Bob Hall wrote: The belief that guys with red skin, horns, pointy tails, and pitchforks represent the devil is a European superstition, not a Christian doctrine. There's no support for it in the Bible or the writings of the church fathers. There is also no support, except among BSD fans, for

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-05 Thread Cytomatrix
: Linux move to FreeBSD Bob Hall wrote: The belief that guys with red skin, horns, pointy tails, and pitchforks represent the devil is a European superstition, not a Christian doctrine. There's no support for it in the Bible or the writings of the church fathers. There is also no support, except

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-05 Thread Graham Bentley
This is the funniest discussion i have ever read. I saving these messages for future entertainment. I love Tux and Beastie pictures Same here, I also like the look of the default blue colored lilo menu on some linux distros - its looks quite professional.

RE: Linux move to FreeBSD (Beastie vs Penguin)

2005-07-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of TvZ Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 1:11 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux move to FreeBSD (Beastie vs Penguin) I would rather see this thread die out I agree - we are killing electrons

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD (Beastie vs Penguin)

2005-07-05 Thread Danny Pansters
On Wednesday 6 July 2005 02:07, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of TvZ Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 1:11 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux move to FreeBSD (Beastie vs Penguin) I would

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD (Beastie vs Penguin)

2005-07-05 Thread Danny Pansters
On Wednesday 6 July 2005 03:06, Mike Hauber wrote: On Tuesday 05 July 2005 08:29 pm, you wrote: It's the imposing upon from religious groups (and well, let's say that I don't think they're muslims) that I find not only annoying but, yeah, downright dangerous. Throwing out 2-3 centuries of

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD (Beastie vs Penguin)

2005-07-05 Thread Danny Pansters
On Wednesday 6 July 2005 05:12, Mike Hauber wrote: On Tuesday 05 July 2005 09:41 pm, you wrote: I agree. They can think whatever they want. That's fine with me. But like I said, they have no right to impose their belives upon others and certainly not upon a group of people who provide

RE: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-04 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dmitry Mityugov Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 2:03 PM To: Lane Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux move to FreeBSD On 7/3/05, Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... It truly boggles the mind

RE: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-04 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dmitry Mityugov Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 3:27 PM To: Bob Hall; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux move to FreeBSD The problem is, my friend lives closer to Europe than to anything else

RE: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-04 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: Dmitry Mityugov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 2:17 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Lane; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux move to FreeBSD On 7/4/05, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... -Original Message

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-04 Thread Al Johnson
On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 04:36:49PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Blah... Ted, you're among the easiest troll bait I've seen, and I've seen the whole spectrum of trollees. -- If the ends don't justify the means, what does? -- Robert Moses ___

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-04 Thread Lane
On Monday 04 July 2005 11:51, you wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dmitry Mityugov Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 2:03 PM To: Lane Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux move to FreeBSD On 7/3/05, Lane

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-04 Thread Chuck Robey
TvZ wrote: Hi I am a user of SUSE Linux, and I was thinking of trying out BSD. After reading as much information as I could about the three variants of BSD vs. Linux. On technical merit, I was very impressed. FreeBSD looks like a good stating place for me, but one think about FreeBSD makes me

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-04 Thread Graham Bentley
The devil made me do it ! besastie.4th \ 46 4 print-beastie The power of .. choice ! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-04 Thread Dmitry Mityugov
On 7/4/05, Graham Bentley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The devil made me do it ! besastie.4th \ 46 4 print-beastie The power of .. choice ! Okay, okay. What about the Gnome startup screen? -- Dmitry We live less by imagination than despite it - Rockwell Kent, N by E

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD (Beastie vs Penguin)

2005-07-04 Thread TvZ
Old Chucky replied to the following I posted: As I stated earlier...I'm rather new to BSD...but one of the reasons I changed fromn Linux - bsd was merly the fact that I thought the penguin was more evil than Beasty. Then again...that is just me. ;) This was his reply... I cannot really believe

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-07-04 20:03, Graham Bentley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The devil made me do it ! besastie.4th \ 46 4 print-beastie The power of .. choice ! Easier than that: # echo 'beastie_disable=YES' /boot/loader.conf ___

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-03 Thread nbco
On Sunday 03 July 2005 00:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi snip I would like to know if possible how this came about, and what thinking was behind it. From experience, I consider symbols to be very significant, Historically, psychologically and even spiritually. Best regards Mark Hi there

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-03 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-07-02 19:35 -0400] FreeBSD looks like a good stating place for me, but one think about FreeBSD makes me uncomfortable is the symbol/emblem that the OS uses. That is a devil ! This has been covered many times before, and you could search the archives for more

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-03 Thread wizlayer
On Saturday 02 July 2005 07:35 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am a user of SUSE Linux, and I was thinking of trying out BSD. After reading as much information as I could about the three variants of BSD vs. Linux. On technical merit, I was very impressed. FreeBSD looks like a good

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-03 Thread wizlayer
On Sunday 03 July 2005 10:11 am, wizlayer wrote: And naturally, because FreeBSD is such a powerful system, if you use it for evil (which we are all capable of), it would be on us, not the daemon... Heck, not even the Devil because the Devil didn't make you do it... _You_ did it! :)

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-03 Thread Lane
On Sunday 03 July 2005 09:11, wizlayer wrote: On Saturday 02 July 2005 07:35 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am a user of SUSE Linux, and I was thinking of trying out BSD. After reading as much information as I could about the three variants of BSD vs. Linux. On technical merit, I

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-03 Thread TvZ
Hi I am a user of SUSE Linux, and I was thinking of trying out BSD. After reading as much information as I could about the three variants of BSD vs. Linux. On technical merit, I was very impressed. FreeBSD looks like a good stating place for me, but one think about FreeBSD makes

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-03 Thread TvZ
Hi I am a user of SUSE Linux, and I was thinking of trying out BSD. After reading as much information as I could about the three variants of BSD vs. Linux. On technical merit, I was very impressed. FreeBSD looks like a good stating place for me, but one think about FreeBSD makes

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-03 Thread wizlayer
On Sunday 03 July 2005 11:38 am, Lane wrote: It truly boggles the mind at how frequently people protest the on-going decision to use beastie on the public face of FreeBSD. It's almost like a guest who comes into your home and then starts redecorating! I like the members-only solution, but

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-03 Thread Sean Hafeez
Issues like this just go to prove: Civilization and Religion are incompatible. On Jul 2, 2005, at 4:35 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am a user of SUSE Linux, and I was thinking of trying out BSD. After reading as much information as I could about the three variants of BSD vs. Linux.

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-03 Thread Dmitry Mityugov
On 7/3/05, Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... It truly boggles the mind at how frequently people protest the on-going decision to use beastie on the public face of FreeBSD. It's almost like a guest who comes into your home and then starts redecorating! ... I believe there was nothing in the

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-03 Thread TvZ
: Linux move to FreeBSD On 7/3/05, Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... It truly boggles the mind at how frequently people protest the on-going decision to use beastie on the public face of FreeBSD. It's almost like a guest who comes into your home and then starts redecorating! ... I believe

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-03 Thread Steve Brown
That is way I here your problem but could not clearly see the problem with any Os's. How about you install BSD and just clear the conf file which shows Beastie at startup. Asking people to do something to easily remedy a situation of their own accord? Are you crazy? Steve B.

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-03 Thread Bob Hall
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 01:02:33AM +0400, Dmitry Mityugov wrote: I am, personally, currently helping my friend to buy and configure a computer for him and his family. Although I know FreeBSD better than Linux (and this does not mean I am a FreeBSD guru), I'll be installing something like

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-03 Thread Dmitry Mityugov
On 7/4/05, Bob Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 01:02:33AM +0400, Dmitry Mityugov wrote: I am, personally, currently helping my friend to buy and configure a computer for him and his family. Although I know FreeBSD better than Linux (and this does not mean I am a

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-03 Thread Danny Pansters
On Sunday 3 July 2005 23:02, Dmitry Mityugov wrote: On 7/3/05, Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... It truly boggles the mind at how frequently people protest the on-going decision to use beastie on the public face of FreeBSD. It's almost like a guest who comes into your home and then

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-03 Thread Danny Pansters
On Sunday 3 July 2005 23:02, Dmitry Mityugov wrote: On 7/3/05, Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... It truly boggles the mind at how frequently people protest the on-going decision to use beastie on the public face of FreeBSD. It's almost like a guest who comes into your home and then