In message <m3n1zzl13b.fsf@shelbyville.oai.com>, Mirian Crzig Lennox writes:
>I had the misfortune of having to install a RedHat Linux system the
>other day.  I know they mean well, but the utter lack of taste and
>discretion really get to me sometimes:

Me too!

>No flippin' vi!  Linux systems all want to give you "Vi IMpaired"
>instead, which is a vi clone on some serious steroids and a gram of
>coke with delusions of being emacs.

Well, it's not like we ship with plain-old-vi either.  On the other
hand, nvi is the *good* vi variant.

>NetBSD is an operating system whose maintainers understand that what
>you leave out is at least as important as what you include.

Nicely phrased.

-s