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Posted on 11/04/2005 3:30:08 PM PST by Salo
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Er...I'll stick with RedHat / Fedora. =)
They're both good. The 5.x branch has a bad reputation, but I haven't had any problems with it. The 6 branch is supposed to be a lot better.
What's BSD?
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On of the two main Unix forks...
Berkeley Software Design
If you say so. They aren’t though. Linux has a distinctive SCO Openserver/Unixware feel to it (to me).
Once you cut your teeth on the BSD side everything else if funky/clunky. I’m sure they *could* make the same claim from the other side, but they just don’t know any better.
IMO, of course.
That said, I never made it to 5.x, much less 6. I’ve got the FBSD 2.0 Snap and 2.1.6, 2.1.7, 2.2, 3.0 (up to 5/98), and a couple of 4.0 Snap CDs.
I’ve got a decent extra machine lying around so maybe I’ll try again. Got a machine with 3.0 in the garage I use exclusively for Adventure… well, Adventure and my rapidly deteriorating (dead?) vi skills…
Yup. Good stuff.
Berkeley Standard Derivation (of AT&T UNIX version 6, presumably), Berkeley Software Distribution, who can say after all these years.
Ha. That’s what they want you to think!
In reality, they make lousy coasters. They don’t absorb any condensation and have a hole in the middle.
In the old days the best use I ever saw for them was when people would stick them in the lip between the hung-ceiling tiles and the rails the tiles rest on.
You’d go into someone’s office or cube and you could gaze up at the ceiling and check out their old/worthless CD collection stuck in the ceiling-tile lip while they were on the phone or something.
That said - I only use it for two things nowadays - playing Adventure (and I probably haven’t done that since 2003) and “testing” my few remaining vi skills. LOL.
"Got a machine with 3.0 in the garage I use exclusively for Adventure…"
FEE FIE FOE FOO
Yep.
In the old (~1979-ish) version it goes:
YOU ARE IN THE GIANT ROOM. THE CEILING
HERE IS TOO HIGH UP FOR YOUR LAMP TO
SHOW IT. CAVERNOUS PASSAGES LEAD EAST,
NORTH, AND SOUTH. ON THE WEST WALL IS
SCRAWLED THE INSCRIPTION, ‘FEE FIE FOE
FOO’ (SIC).
THERE IS A LARGE NEST HERE, FULL OF GOLDEN EGGS!
You toss the eggs to the troll to pass over the chasm. You can get them back though.
Funny I remember silly crap like that verbatim, but can’t remember more recent important stuff.
Whatever.
I've tried FreeSBIE 1.1--I'm quite impressed with what I see, but haven't been able to get the internet hooked up and running (after ifconfig, netstat, etc. ad nauseam)...
HUZZAH!
BSD bump!
Well, if that's the case, I'm sure they have a windows version of Adventure somewhere. I don't see why you need to practice your vi skills. The thing about vi is, you either feel the use for it, or you use microsoft word or (gasp) Emacs (which is probably also available in windows for some reason or another). If you get sick of playing adventure and still want to practice your vi skills, check out another Unixy game: Nethack. Remember: "j" moves you down, "k" moves you up, "l" moves you right, and ";" moves you left. No need to use the escape key.
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