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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: TCP latency
Date: 15 Jul 1996 00:16:52 GMT
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les@MCS.COM (Leslie Mikesell) wrote:

> >>   I feel that it is self defeating
> >> to have BSDI, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and 386BSD out there.
> >
> >I feel that it is self defeating to have twenty-five different Linuxes
> >around. :)  (I mean complete systems here, not only kernels.)
> 
> I disagree (in both cases).  There are at least 25 reasons to set up
> a system differently.

But then you must admit that at least three different BSD streams are
not too many:

. one for a commercially supported system
. one for a multi-platform system
. one for a ``mainstream platform(s) only'' but all whistles and bells
  system

That should cover 24 of your 25 reasons. ;-)

(Note that i personally don't have a problem with seeing more than one
Linux distribution, but i do have a problem with Larry McVoy not
allowing us to have more than one *BSD distribution.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)