The new 'Linux Foundation'

[Ted Roche]

On Jan 22, 2007, at 4:30 PM, Ben Scott wrote:

> I've encountered people who say things like "BSD is like Linux,  
> right?".

And what do you tell them? I've downloaded, installed, configured  
*BSD a couple of times. Looks just like a distro-switch to me: things  
have funny names and they're in the wrong places. The package  
management system is different from the one I'm used to. "apache" is  
still spelled the same way. I haven't actually tried deploying any of  
this stuff, as I have a clue about what I don't know, but...

Didn't we have someone offer to give a LUG tour of one or more of the  
BSDs? Did I miss that one? That's a session I'd like to see. I don't  
see anyone listed on http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/ 
Organizational/MeetingSpeakers, but it's a talk I'd attend.

>  Given that humans invented language, we sure seem to suck at using  
> it.  :)

The same could be said of baseball. Or football, a few weekends ago.

"What we have he-ah, is a failure to communicate." Tower of Babel.  
Hmm. Maybe language is not our most clever invention.

Ted Roche
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