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From: root@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson)
Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD
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Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 09:06:03 GMT
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In article <49phf7$rmp@times.tfs.com>,
Julian Elischer <julian@mailhub.tfs.com> wrote:
>
>Hey Linux is neat but Why do you keep insisting that BSD
>isn't eady to work with?
>have you TRIED?
>
I seem to remember Nick from the mailing lists -- he said that he had
problems with FreeBSD somehow...  But the issue is that HE had problems,
but it does not invalidate FreeBSD -- because lots of people do use FreeBSD
in high-performance applications.

When I rebuilt my first Linux kernel, it took me a couple of times longer
than it takes me to build a FreeBSD kernel -- that means that Linux is
harder to work with???  Of course not -- that is not the reason that Linux
is not as good (flame bait :-)).  It is because I was ignorant of the
methodologies -- and I believe that is the reason that a lot of people
get stuck with sometimes inferior OSes....

John
dyson@freebsd.org