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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!chi-news.cic.net!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!not-for-mail From: les@MCS.COM (Leslie Mikesell) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Date: 10 Dec 1995 14:38:11 -0600 Organization: /usr/lib/news/organi[sz]ation Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4afgfj$4h3@Mercury.mcs.com> References: <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> <4a2h5v$81i@park.uvsc.edu> <4a2o8l$s9s@catapult.gatech.edu> <4abkj2$pqr@park.uvsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: mercury.mcs.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:31029 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10903 comp.unix.advocacy:12425 comp.unix.misc:20197 In article <4abkj2$pqr@park.uvsc.edu>, Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote: >gt1355b@acmey.gatech.edu (Chris) wrote: >] >] Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote: >] : I'd like to question this premise. UnixWare has a larger user >] : base than Linux, yet UnixWare doesn't support QIC-40/80 drives. >] >] How do you know that UnixWare has a larger userbase? ;-) > >There are more commercial products for it that run without >ABI emulation? That just means that some marketing managers decided that Unixware users part with their money faster than Linux users. Les Mikesell les@mcs.com