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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!newsspool.doit.wisc.edu!koala.uwec.edu!daffy.anetsrvcs.uwrf.edu!cakerwood!not-for-mail From: bl03@uwrf.edu (BENJAMIN A LINDSTROM) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Followup-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc Date: 6 Dec 1995 06:39:10 GMT Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4a3dqe$tr8@daffy.anetsrvcs.uwrf.edu> References: <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> <49ijf9$9rc@tombstone.kent.edu> <30BD2617.23585C28@mcs.net> <49k0dd$pfg@nntp5.u.washington.edu> <49p9nr$1pj@pell.pell.chi.il.us> <4a2h5v$81i@park.uvsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cakerwood.acc.uwrf.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950726BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:29279 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:9835 comp.unix.advocacy:11746 comp.unix.misc:19850 Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote: : orc@pell.chi.il.us (Orc) wrote: : ] It's good that Linux does support all this funky hardware, but : ] it certainly isn't because it's Linux -- it just has a larger : ] userbase than the xBSD systems do. As the xBSD user community : ] grows, that userbase will result in more funky hardware support, : ] which is as it should be. : : I'd like to question this premise. UnixWare has a larger user : base than Linux, yet UnixWare doesn't support QIC-40/80 drives. : : Maybe a better comment would be: "Active User Development community"...Since it's the hackers with ODD hardware that is doing the ports. =)