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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.advocacy:9496 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:2343 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nexus.coast.net!news.kei.com!newshost.marcam.com!usc!nic-nac.CSU.net!newshub.sdsu.edu!saturn!larryr From: larryr@saturn.sdsu.edu (Larry Riedel) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD Followup-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Date: 22 Jun 1995 06:34:03 GMT Organization: San Diego State University, College of Sciences Lines: 43 Message-ID: <3sb2sr$rl8@pandora.sdsu.edu> References: <3qfhhv$7uc@titania.pps.pgh.pa.us> <3rf85f$bv0@agate.berkeley.edu> <3rkgc0$8o7@beethoven.orc.soton.ac.uk> <3s323f$87p@agate.berkeley.edu> <3sa7tg$fu9@park.uvsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: saturn.sdsu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Terry Lambert (terry@cs.weber.edu) wrote: > nickkral@sextans.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Nick Kralevich) wrote: > > But I'm hoping some one will help me with my FreeBSD problems. > > The correct place for the networking questions is the mailing list > questions@freebsd.org; the people who maintain that code don't have > a lot of news-reading time and probably won't respond. Usually I don't see why anyone would say that FreeBSD is more like an exclusive club than Linux, but this looks like one very good reason. I don't think the average user wants to have to subscribe to a mailing list if they have a question about the product for which they would like to get an authoritative answer - or more importantly to know that someone who could answer the question is at least reading it. I would agree with anyone who chose Linux over FreeBSD because they knew that the people who develop FreeBSD don't have time to read its newsgroup. If I post a question to comp.lang.perl.misc, I know Larry Wall is there to read it; if I post to comp.lang.c++, I know Bjarne Stroustrup is there; if I post to comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains, I know Paul Vixie is there; if I post to comp.mail.sendmail, I know Eric Allman is there; if I post to news.software.nntp, I know Rich Salz is there. The list go could on and on of people who are associated with the subject of the newsgroup who seem to be able to have enough "news-reading time". I don't see any good reason why the people involved with the development of FreeBSD should not be reading comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc and answering questions. The traffic in this group is relatively quite light, but then again, maybe that is because the word is out that if a person wants to use a Unix that is directly supported on USENET by the developers, then they should use Linux, because the developers of FreeBSD just don't have the time to read the questions posted here. This is not to say that I think the developers SHOULD read the newsgroup, because they can do whatever they want to as far as I'm concerned, but with a policy that the "correct place" for questions about FreeBSD is a mailing list because the developers don't have time to read the newsgroup, I don't think anyone should be surprised if the day comes soon when the number of FreeBSD users can be stored in an unsigned char. Larry