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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gumby!andrews-cc!gillham From: gillham@andrews.edu (Andrew Gillham) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Linux vs. BSD (NOT a religious question!) Date: 19 May 1995 04:10:44 GMT Organization: Andrews University Lines: 33 Message-ID: <3ph5o4$ith@orion.cc.andrews.edu> References: <coveD8qwsL.Mvq@netcom.com> <MICHAELV.95May17222030@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <3pg08i$qdg@helena.mt.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: edmund.cs.andrews.edu In article <3pg08i$qdg@helena.mt.net> "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> writes: >In article <MICHAELV.95May17222030@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>, >Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> wrote: >>In article <coveD8qwsL.Mvq@netcom.com> cove@netcom.com (Cove) writes: >> >> I am running linux now, but I'm considering switching over to BSD. >> Reason being is that I'd like to learn a more widely used OS, no just >> a PC based one. Could BSD give me this kind of experience over Linux? >>In *MY* experience, yes, NetBSD could DEFINITELY do this for you. >>FreeBSD also, but to a lesser extent (no offense -- I'm not saying >>FreeBSD is a lesser OS). Well, he said "more widely used OS, no[t] just a PC based one." That would somewhat imply a multi-platform OS, hence Michael's comments about NetBSD being perfect. >No offense intended, but why do you consider NetBSD a more widely used >OS vs. FreeBSD? Obviously there are no numbers to compare, but I would >suspect there are more total users using FreeBSD than NetBSD, and both >of them are surpassed by Linux. However, the *BSD's have the advantage >of being enough like a lot of other commercial OS's that 'BSD' is more >widely used. Unfortunately, even the veteran BSD-based vendor (SUN) is pushing SVR4, so I'd say *BSD has the advantage that it is BSD, *NOT* SVR4! :-) -Andrew -- ========================================================== Andrew Gillham gillham@andrews.edu LAN/WAN/Netware/Unix Analyst Resume -> http://www.cs.andrews.edu/~gillham/resume.html