[ILUG] Re: mainstream

[Conor Daly]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 09:58:21PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Anthony thought:
> kevin lyda wrote:
> >On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 06:37:01PM +0000, conor at discuskeeping.com wrote:
> >
> >>Anyway, linux is becoming too mainstream, by next year we will be 
> >>likely running on FreeBSD. :-0
> >
> >are there actually any people on this list who use linux because it's
> >not mainstream?
> 
> But seriously, I actually chose GNU/Linux over one of the Free *BSD 
> variants precisely because it *is* more mainstream and has a wider user 

By contrast, a {dinosaur} colleague of mine who's been used to ultrix and
solaris for the last 15 years is complaining that our new {RHEL} server
has been attacked by MS shills.  Somebody {probably called Herbert}, he
complains, has decided that when he types 'vi' what he _really_ wants is
'vim' and that Herbert decided that he really shouldn't be running telnet
and so it won't get installed.  The server's only recently arrived and
we're currently putting it into service and he's building up this 'Herbert
list' rapidly.  Alas, I'm not the admin so I wasn't able to prevent the
insertion of 'alias vi=/bin/vi' in place of 'alias vi=vim' in
/etc/bashrc.  I did manage to get it changed to the insertion of 'unalias
vi' in /etc/skel/.bashrc instead though...

Conor
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