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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!nodecg.ncc.telecomwa.oz.au!netbsd08.dn.itg.telecom.com.au!orca1.vic.design.telecom.com.au!news.tansu.com.au!picasso.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au!newshost!chrisb From: chrisb@stork.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au (Chris Bitmead) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Wondering why user base of Linux surpass */BSD Date: 09 May 1995 09:29:34 GMT Organization: Telecom Australia Lines: 16 Message-ID: <CHRISB.95May9192934@stork.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au> References: <799240151PCTIN@lot.cs.kiev.ua> Reply-To: chrisb@ind.tansu.com.au NNTP-Posting-Host: stork.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au In-reply-to: Igor Sviridov's message of Sun, 30 Apr 1995 12:09:11 GMT In article <799240151PCTIN@lot.cs.kiev.ua> Igor Sviridov <sia@lot.cs.kiev.ua> writes: >One of the biggest motivations was the internal consistency of Net/FreeBSD. >There is a _single_ distribution. There is a single distribution of Net/FreeBSD??? Actually it's six of one and half a dozen of the other. The BSD folks have the advantage that FreeBSD (and NetBSD) each have only one distribution available. On the other hand Linux has the advantage that there is only one kernel and one user source tree, but BSD has the Net/Free split. -- Chris Bitmead chrisb@ind.tansu.com.au