*BSD News Article 29319


Return to BSD News archive

Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2279 comp.os.linux.misc:12643
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!news.uh.edu!not-for-mail
From: cosc19v2@menudo.uh.edu (cosc19v2)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux
Date: 9 Apr 1994 17:44:35 -0500
Organization: University of Houston
Lines: 14
Message-ID: <2o7b4j$ch0@menudo.uh.edu>
References: <CMzw69.92K@tower.nullnet.fi> <2nq530$7hh@hecate.umd.edu> <2nt3fk$b0l@menudo.uh.edu> <2nuo9g$dmb@hecate.umd.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: menudo.uh.edu

In article <2nuo9g$dmb@hecate.umd.edu>,
Mark Sienkiewicz <mark@elea.umd.edu> wrote:
>>I think that what is different b/w Linux users and *BSD users is that
>>the former uses DOS/Linux box as a basis for the applications they use
>>every day, and the latter uses *BSD for *BSD hacking (of course, in this
>>case, you don't need DOS and you don't want to see it again).
>
>This is partly true.  It seems typical (there's that word again :)
>......  deleted

"I consider it the obligation of scientists and intellectuals to insure
 that their ideas are made accessible and thus useful to society instead
 of being mere playthings for specialists."
   -B. Stroustrup,  from "Design and Evolution of C++".