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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!uunet!in2.uu.net!198.6.9.51!TIS_NEWS!news.iquest.net!not-for-mail From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: Sat, 01 Feb 1997 12:10:20 -0500 Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine Lines: 40 Message-ID: <32F378FC.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5c155c$p6u@raven.eva.net> <5c19pg$rf6@lynx.dac.neu.edu> <5c39sk$ddl@troma.rv.tis.com> <5c8jlm$50u@cynic.portal.ca> <m23evrulla.fsf@desk.crynwr.com> <5cdqos$e6k@camel1.mindspring.com> <Pine.SOL.3.91.970201040446.16129A-100000@ux8.cso.uiuc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dyson.iquest.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:155946 comp.os.linux.networking:67148 comp.os.linux.setup:95307 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5851 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2215 Kueh, Anthony wrote: > > On Sat, 25 Jan 1997, Kevin P. Neal wrote: > > > And Linux isn't fragmented? > > Not nearly as fragmented as the various BSD's. All Linux distributions > contain the same free code. > Which versions of free code? Which versions of shared libs (a major compat problem with Linux's) are each shipped with? > > > How many Linux distributions are there? > > I think about 4 major ones. But if you look at the four, they could still > be considered "siblings". Where as if you compared FreeBSD, BSDI, > and OpenBSD, they have more differences, especially on a philosophical > view point. For example, BSDI is created to more on the level of other > major Unixes (to provide a reliable and stable network server). Where as > FreeBSD is to provide a desktop workstation type OS. > No, FreeBSD is to provide a reliable and stable network server, and if you want to use it on the desktop -- then cool!!! NT is unfortunately a better desktop OS for most applications than FreeBSD or Linux. A FreeBSD and NT based network is extremely flexible. > > Just for all those BSD advocates out there.. if BSD is so much more > superior than Linux, how come someone bothered to make Linux binaries > executable on FreeBSD? > Why not? there are titles for Linux out there that it is convienient to run on FreeBSD. BTW, if Linux was so much superior to FreeBSD, Linux would have a great FreeBSD emulator (because it is easy to do, due to Linux's superior platform.) One reason that FreeBSD is cool, is because it can ENCOMPASS what Linux does. (Modulo some driver support, etc.) John