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Re: Analogies



On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 10:08:15PM +0300, Kai Hendry wrote:
> 
> I sometimes use a car analogy to describe Debian in comparison to more
> popular operating systems amongst friends at the pub.

My favorite is Neal Stephenson's description of unix as "The Hole Hawg
of Operating Systems" in "In the Beginning was the Command Line":

 http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html (the whole text)

http://steve-parker.org/articles/others/stephenson/holehawg.shtml

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