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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.cais.net!news.jsums.edu!gatech!newsjunkie.ans.net!newsfeeds.ans.net!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!sgigate.sgi.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!news.larc.nasa.gov!maui.cc.odu.edu!galactica.cs.odu.edu!bowden From: Ragnar <bowden@cs.odu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX) Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 21:13:51 -0400 Organization: Old Dominion University Lines: 26 Message-ID: <Pine.3.91.960417210610.23800C-100000@galactica.cs.odu.edu> References: <NELSON.96Apr15010553@ns.crynwr.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: galactica.cs.odu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <NELSON.96Apr15010553@ns.crynwr.com> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:21786 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:695 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3327 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3171 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17686 comp.os.linux.advocacy:46285 On 15 Apr 1996, Russell Nelson wrote: > See? Again and again you address technical issues. Technical issues, > in general, don't matter. > > But you didn't answer my question: what is wrong with Linux that you > cannot fix? Well, let's start with the fact that there are more linux distributions than there are *bsd's...unified camp my ass. Next we move on to the fact tha t linux is not UNIX, is not even an os, it's a kernel. Then we move into the GPL, where you can't use it in anything propriteary EVER, and you have to make the source available long after what you gave away is no longer valid, and is most likely long obsolete. From there we'll move into security and stability, the majority of linux dists. lack both. After that we move into portablilty...most of my sunos 4.1.x source compiles happily in freebsd, netbsd, and openbsd...for linux, I have to first make go in sloaris, and then attempt the linux almost sysv like atmosphere...fuck it, I don't have time. I have used linux, I am a FreeBSD user and advocate...it outperforms any other os I have used in terms of stability, portability, speed, and ease of install. Jamie I have my finger on the pulse of the planet.