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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.iquest.net!not-for-mail From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Measuring "stability" (was: Linux vs BSD) Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 20:48:32 -0500 Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine Lines: 21 Message-ID: <32F93870.167EB0E7@freebsd.org> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <slrn5fejrn.353.bet@onyx.interactive.net> <5d7spf$8n6@web.nmti.com> <5d9p55$t1h@news.ox.ac.uk> <5dadfr$cnu@web.nmti.com> <ywtu3nq7oyq.fsf_-_@math.ucsb.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:156336 comp.os.linux.advocacy:82514 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2273 Axel Boldt wrote: > > The above looks like a good start. Should be a little bit more > formalized though. I saw a test of Unix utilities a while back, where > they threw random input at them, and the GNU tools came out as the > most stable, far ahead of comercial Unices (does FreeBSD use the GNU > tools at all?). > Yes, we use the GNU tools when they are superior to the original BSD ones, and not necessary for minimal system runtime operation. That also includes the entire cc/as/ld development chain. > > Maybe we can do something similar for OS's. Surely, > both systems will improve as a result. > That is an effort that I could cooperate on. John