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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!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.unix.admin,alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Questions about Linux vs. FreeBSD... Followup-To: comp.unix.admin,alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Date: 16 Dec 1995 21:25:18 GMT Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4avdfu$bk5@daffy.anetsrvcs.uwrf.edu> References: <4ajc07$sb7@unix2.glink.net.hk> <4aob8v$s21@park.uvsc.edu> <4aq2l9$5u9@oink.cs.utexas.edu> <4atkva$cqi@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.unix.admin:36077 alt.os.linux:6450 alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions:5131 comp.os.linux.advocacy:30503 comp.os.linux.misc:75903 comp.os.linux.setup:32546 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10568 Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote: : toddg@cs.utexas.edu (Todd Michael Greer) wrote: : ] : ] I find it interesting how this whole Linux vs. FreeBSD thing gets into : ] a religious war, and I've never heard anyone say anything coherent to : ] claim that one is better than the other. I'm not claiming that no : ] such thing could be said--just that I've not heard it. : : OK. Here's a couple. : : [Deleted nasty reasons why there is NEVER any REAL comparison] : Which is a fundamental logic flaw in the questioners model : of how the world actually operates. : Would it help if we started a thread saying..."RedHat 2.1 w/ 1.2.13 kernel vs. FreeBSD 2.x.x (whatever stable release is OUT)" ? That limits the topic to JUST those systems..IF someone then comes in and said.."Hey..Linux 1.3.666 has XXXX" then you flame him for not reading the orignal argument and go on.=) It would be rather Interesting to take the latest development FreeBSD and lastest development of Linux (kernel vs kernel only). [assuming the above cut offs]