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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!news.eunet.fi!KremlSun!rivendell.elvis.msk.su!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news From: Michael Hoess <hoessml@track.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: The Future of FreeBSD... Date: 22 Jul 1995 17:45:01 GMT Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG Lines: 21 Message-ID: <3urdet$hd4@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> References: <3uktse$d9c@hal.nt.tuwien.ac.at> <3unlc6$2cf@felix.junction.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: rusxppp25.rus.uni-stuttgart.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; Linux 1.2.9 i586) X-URL: news:3unlc6$2cf@felix.junction.net >>1) For whatever reasons, Linux has a much larger user *and* developer >> base than FreeBSD, and therefore can provide *high quality* I think the reason is, that some Computer-Magazines wrote about it, some CD-Manufactures saw a chance to make money with it, and so Linux got it's free advertising and marketing (My actual PC-magazines shows 6 commercials for Linux-CD's and a large report on the different Linux-distributions, nothing large or visible for FreeBSD). >Perhaps it is time to start integrating >tools like TCL/Tk and expect and PERL into the system in the same way >that X and USENET and vi have been added. And on the other side I think such stone-age tools like vi should be kicked out (since they make people who worked with comforable DOS-Editors run away) and replace them with other editors like JOE. Sorry for my bad english... Michael Hoess hoessml@track.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de