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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:26348 comp.os.386bsd.misc:3639 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!news.clark.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!ns1.nodak.edu!plains.NoDak.edu!tinguely From: tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu (Mark Tinguely) Subject: Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one? Sender: usenet@ns1.nodak.edu (Usenet login) Message-ID: <CxA77J.LGt@ns1.nodak.edu> Date: Fri, 7 Oct 1994 02:35:43 GMT References: <jeffpkCx4wtM.B64@netcom.com> <Cx7Fwx.qLH@ns1.nodak.edu> <36ui36$m9q@pendragon.jsc.nasa.gov> Nntp-Posting-Host: plains.nodak.edu Organization: North Dakota State University Keywords: mosaic term telnet Lines: 36 In article <36ui36$m9q@pendragon.jsc.nasa.gov> poirot@laurel.jsc.nasa.gov (Daniel Poirot) writes: >In article <Cx7Fwx.qLH@ns1.nodak.edu>, >Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu> wrote: >>In article <jeffpkCx4wtM.B64@netcom.com> jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman) writes: >><text removed> >> everyone can agree that Linux is a System V based OS and *BSD is BSD based > >How do you figure? Aside from /etc/inittab run state stuff, I can't >think of a thing that makes Linux look like SysV (yuck). *BSD has the proc filesystem too (wasn't that a Plan 9 idea?) so that is not what I had in mind. Linux does use inittab, and rc.d (runlevels) like System V. I guess I see things from the administrative point of view, users see things from a shell or library level. No insult intended. I generalized statements about all the groups, not to start a religous war but to stop one. Linux, *BSD, and Mach running one of these as a server are all good. Each group will be viable for the near future, each group has its own support/design/distribution/economical drives. People from OS XX are not going to switch to OS YY at this point. New people sincerly ask which OS they should run. It would be wrong to say in long term or even today, that OS XX is better than YY. If you want to convert them to Linux, sell them on the "market share", the DOS-philic (for example filesystems), NetBSD people can sell their plans (and successes) of have one OS across multiple CPU architectures, FreeBSD people can sell their approach of wanting very tested stable releases. This is certain better than "XX has a shitty HH (for me)", "No, the HH in XX is works great (for me), you are just mad because your II is slow (for me)"... The new people can decide what they want. Let us sell, not FUD. If my generalizations were offending, or incorrect, I am sorry. Lets let each group put out a list of "selling features" for their OS. We can bundle all of the selling features into a "What should I run FAQ", and let the user choose. --mark (the long winded preacher?).