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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2886 comp.os.linux.misc:20507 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!news2.near.net!das-news.harvard.edu!spdcc!merk!rmkhome!rmk From: rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly) Subject: Re: Usefulness of BSD/Linux Source Knowledge (was BSD vs. LINUX) Organization: The Man With Ten Cats Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc References: <30jqp1$ees@grex.cyberspace.org> <1994Jul21.182603.15882@belvedere.sbay.org> <2NsBkiCqLiLU068yn@cs.odu.edu> <30pn0a$9rf@hermes.unt.edu> <CtEuyA.En1@world.std.com> <1994Jul24.185248.5906@escape.widomaker.com> <313tkg$nhd@Mercury.mcs.com> Message-ID: <9407282115.10@rmkhome.com> Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Date: Fri, 29 Jul 1994 02:15:11 GMT Lines: 29 Daniel Leeds (dleeds@MCS.COM) wrote: : Shannon Hendrix (shendrix@escape.widomaker.com) wrote: : : Also, SunOS is no longer a port of BSD. It's yet another version of : : SVR4.2 now, not BSD. It's been that way since Solaris 2 was released : : and it is the future, like it or not. : SunOS != Solaris. Wake up. Too different products. Solaris is what is : shipped nowdays, exactly why I will *NOT* buy sparcs anymore. Sun still ships 4.1.3 (Solaris 1.1.1) for ALL there systems, even the newest. : : Because BSD is dead. I wish it were not so because I prefer BSD but : : SVR4.2 is the future of UNIX, not BSD. You actually made a wrong : : choice by your own critieria. : Funny, I am running BSD right now. My machine is functioning and pretty : fucking good thank you. As for development there is alot of BSD : development going on right now, just not from Berkeley's commercial entity. : This whole BSD is dead shit just doesn't add up missy. Yeah, but 3 knew Linux kernels came out today. :) -- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.com rmk@bedford.progress.com