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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:4393 comp.os.linux.misc:31507 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!caen!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gatech!newsfeed.pitt.edu!ctc.com!news.mic.ucla.edu!library.ucla.edu!galaxy.ucr.edu!jjs From: jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu (Joe Sloan) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: BSD vs. LINUX Date: 13 Dec 1994 00:15:12 GMT Organization: University of Calfornia at Riverside Lines: 26 Message-ID: <3cip2g$1um@galaxy.ucr.edu> References: <KSTAILEY.94Dec8195010@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> <3cfsi7$eab@nkosi.well.com> <KSTAILEY.94Dec11185301@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> <3cikvv$2lq@mail.fwi.uva.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: dostoevsky.ucr.edu In article <3cikvv$2lq@mail.fwi.uva.nl>, Frank van der Linden <vdlinden@fwi.uva.nl> wrote: > >About Linux making Unix popular with the crowd: they certainly have done >that. "Linux is to the Unix community what AOL is to the Internet". Whether >this is a good thing or not is open for anybody to interpret 8-) I don't think so. Your analogy would infer, sir, that linux is just a crippled variant of UNIX, some sort of watered-down "UNIX for beginers"... That is a very misinformed opinion... The fact is, Linux is quickly becoming the Hackers's OS of choice. Linux on Pentiums and 486s is replacing Sun hardware around here, I can assure you, and doing the job every bit as well as SunOs machines ever did, only faster! e.g. workstations for university CS courses (C++/X11 programming), samba and pcnfs authentication, file access & networked printing services, and a whole slew of applications which are becoming more numerous every month!) happily linuxing, serving 30 other machines... -- jjs@wintermute.ucr.edu / You can't figure out how to A linux machine! because a 486 / ACCELERATE your Windoze NT box? is a terrible thing to waste! / -9.8 m/s^2 works quite well!!!