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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!ix.netcom.com!rajat From: rajat@goteborg.netcom.com (Rajat Datta) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: 5 Feb 1997 15:46:30 GMT Organization: Netcom Lines: 47 Message-ID: <5daa0m$on2@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <slrn5fejrn.353.bet@onyx.interactive.net> <5d8f4p$jto@junkie.gnofn.org> <5d94nk$p9n@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> <5d9i3q$61h@junkie.gnofn.org> Reply-To: rajat@ix.netcom.com NNTP-Posting-Host: aus-tx2-11.ix.netcom.com X-NETCOM-Date: Wed Feb 05 9:46:30 AM CST 1997 X-Newsreader: slrn (0.8.8.4 (BETA) UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:82479 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2257 comp.os.linux.misc:156252 On 5 Feb 1997 02:58:34 -0600, Craig Johnston <craig@gnofn.org> wrote: >In article <5d94nk$p9n@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com>, >Rajat Datta <rajat@ix.netcom.com> wrote: >>On 4 Feb 1997 17:01:45 -0600, Craig Johnston <craig@gnofn.org> wrote: >>> >>>Oh, BTW, you want NetBSD if you want to run on an Alpha. >>> >> >>I won't contribute more noise to the Linux vs. BSD discussion, but I have > > >Or maybe he will after all... Yes, I should have said I didn't want to. > >>to point out that after casting the usual aspersions on Linux about having >>more than one distribution, and FreeBSD having only one, you make the >>recommendation that you must switch to a totally different BSD merely >>because of different hardware. > >Yes, the implication was that FreeBSD does not run on Alphas. I'll bet >you went to a gifted school. Well, that's the point isn't it? On one hand you put Linux down for having multiple distributions while FreeBSD has one, and on the other hand you say you must switch from FreeBSD to a different distribution. Sounds to me like you're being inconsistent. Maybe you didn't go to a gifted school. Or shouldn't have. For my part, I believe FreeBSD to be a fine operating system. I grew up with BSD systems in my programming career, and if it hadn't been for the attitude of some of the early BSD developers I would have been running FreeBSD (wasn't it called BSD386 back then?) instead of Linux. In fact, I just bought a new disk and am waiting for FreeBSD 2.2 to come out to install it so that the stuff I'm developing will be available for both Linux and FreeBSD. I also believe that criticizing Linux for having multiple distributions, each of which have different target users in mind, is stupid. As it is stupid to insist on having only one free *ix clone. They meet different needs, serve different people. Diversity is great. rajat