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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!goliath.apana.org.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.missouri.edu!vortex.cc.missouri.edu!rhys From: rhys@vortex.cc.missouri.edu (Justin "Rhys Thuryn" McNutt) 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: 26 Apr 1996 15:17:12 GMT Organization: University of Missouri - Columbia Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4lqpdo$j7q@news.missouri.edu> References: <NELSON.96Apr15010553@ns.crynwr.com> <NELSON.96Apr17101252@ns.crynwr.com> <3175DBD4.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> <4l5f31$ijv@solaria.cc.gatech.edu> <4l5ltp$4pa@dyson.iquest.net> <4lj3og$ct@complete.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: vortex.cc.missouri.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:22231 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:822 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3489 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3341 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18080 comp.os.linux.advocacy:46997 John Goerzen (jgoerzen@complete.org) wrote: : I'd like to interject a few opinions into this FreeBSD vs Linux discussion. : First, there is no thing that says that one or the other must "win". Both : OSs have their strong points. IMHO, FreeBSD seems to be more stable and : reliable. Linux seems to have newer software and more support. But that is : just my opinion. : Just because I run FreeBSD doesn't mean that Linux must die. I believe that : the FreeBSD and Linux people can work together on some projects (such as : WINE) and improve both OSs and the image of free software in general. This isn't a FreeBSD vs. Linux discussion. Far from it. This is a Free Unix (BOTH FreeBSD and Linux) vs. MS Windows (all flavors). Also, this isn't a discussion of merits, it's a discussion of whether or not the free Unices can (or even *should*) try to contend with the various Windows flavors as the desktop OS of choice. We all know Unix has more functionality. The question is whether or not it's the right choice for businesses, and whether or not businesses will recognize that (probably not). :) -------- If you can lead it to water and force it to drink, it isn't a horse. Got a Linux problem? Or can you help others solve them? Visit the Linux Common Problems page at http://vortex.cc.missouri.edu/~rhys/linux.html rhys@vortex.cc.missouri.edu