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From: Douglas.Wade.Needham@mettav.royle.org (Douglas Wade Needham)
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Subject: Re: BSD vs. Linux
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Date: 24 Mar 94 17:30:34 EST
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In article <1994Mar23.144358.10347@super.org> rminnich@super.org (Ronald G
Minnich) writes:
>In article <2mo6uh$ecm@u.cc.utah.edu>,
>Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> wrote:
>>As the original poster pointed out, support for the machines that *don't*
>>have a 4.1.3 that will run on them is the major selling point. For
>>machines that *do* have 4.1.3, 4.1.3 is BSDish enough that there isn't
>>a religious reason to switch.
>
>No, but there's a very good practical reason:
>Sun's been trying to kill 4.1.3 for years, and won't stop.
>If you want a 4.1.3-like system, and you don't want to be continually hassled
>on source, and you want to share OS code, then netbsd is a MUCH better
>way to go than 4.1.3. That's why we're switching here.
How about the fact of having source code so you can fix things without having
to deal with trying to get patches from Sun. I decided that while I liked
SunCore and SunCGI, I would rather have source for the OS on my Sun 3's, get
X11, and see what I could find to replace SunCore or SunCGI.
- doug
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