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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.development:2618 comp.os.linux.development:17541 comp.unix.bsd:15095 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.linux.development,comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!sgiblab!pacbell.com!amdahl!netcomsv!netcom.com!jmonroy From: jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) Subject: Re: We a FAQ: Linux vs. *BSD!!! Message-ID: <jmonroyCxqFty.HGw@netcom.com> Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.linux.development,comp.unix.bsd Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] References: <jmonroyCxLro2.IF6@netcom.com> <JKH.94Oct13042845@freefall.cdrom.com> <37mflh$f6s@unix1.cc.uop.edu> <37mr7m$mfd@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> Date: Sat, 15 Oct 1994 21:03:34 GMT Lines: 24 Andreas Helke (andreas@orion.mgen.uni-heidelberg.de) wrote: : Ken Hughes (hughes@napa.eng.uop.edu) wrote: : : I wonder how the Windows-DOS-OS/2 people react to these questions? Does : : anyone ever ask over in those groups? Or is everyone there resigned to the : : fact that OS/2 is best or Windows is best or Chicago/Windows 95 will be best : : or that they're all SOL? :-) : You only have to look at the multiple 100 post flamewars that regulary come : up in comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy. The Windows solution is simply to assign : a special newsgroup for this discussion. : The "Windows solution"... it sounds like an oxymoron. Sorry, that's a low shot, but we need to go beyond the convention, because it is efforts (and good technical threads -- like this one is becoming) that will lead people back to *BSD and LINUX and not the a solution that does not benifit ourselves. -- Jesus Monroy Jr jmonroy@netcom.com Zebra Research /386BSD/device-drivers /fd /qic /clock /documentation ___________________________________________________________________________