Re: Tastes Like Chicken

From: Jason Dusek (jdusek_at_cs.uiowa.edu)
Date: 03/24/04

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    Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 22:12:56 -0600
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    Kevin Stevens wrote:

    >
    > On Mar 23, 2004, at 19:52, Jason Dusek wrote:
    >
    >> I'll guess I'll add to the Hoopla. I'm a former Mac user, who was
    >> always deeply curious about the workings of his machine. I have to
    >> say that I have yet to find in any other operating system the unique
    >> combination of instructional challenges and raw functionality that is
    >> offered by FreeBSD!
    >
    >
    >
    > ?? How is it any different than just running OS X in those regards?
    > You can run KDE/Gnome on X if you really want to.
    >
    > KeS
    >
    You really can't run GNOME on OS X - it's more like you can run them
    next to each other. And there aren't nearly as many functional ports.
    And you don't have to set your IP address on a Macintosh. I mentioned
    the unique *combination* of fuctionality and instructional challenges. 

    -- 
~*~* Jason
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