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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.direct.ca!nntp.portal.ca!cynic.portal.ca!not-for-mail From: cjs@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: 7 Feb 1997 13:25:49 -0800 Organization: Internet Portal Services, Inc. Lines: 32 Message-ID: <5dg6kt$fil@cynic.portal.ca> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <KETIL-ytqiv47v56j.fsf@pinro.imr.no> <5dao3t$t7a@cynic.portal.ca> <5dd624$b05@oden.abc.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: cynic.portal.ca Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:82726 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2341 comp.os.linux.misc:156701 In article <5dd624$b05@oden.abc.se>, Jonas Bofjall <m9418@abc.se> wrote: >I am perfectly aware of the code that is borrowed from Linux to BSD >and vice versa. I think Linux and *BSD looks very much the same. Only from the outside. >And when reading these kinds of arguments from the BSD-fans, makes me pretty >sure that FreeBSD isn't worth switching to.... Well, perhaps you had better re-evaluate how you decide which OS to use. Deciding not to use FreeBSD on the basis of a somewhat humourous and rather snarky comment by another person who also doesn't use FreeBSD seems a bit, well, non-rational. (No, I'm not a FreeBSD user, though I think it's a fine OS.) But if you are going to continue to base your OS decisions on this, you perhaps should abandon GNU/Linux as well, since I've been known to recommend that to people from time to time, too. >Also, I think the *BSD people have more internal fights, otherwise we >wouldn't have *three* (at least) BSD derived freeware OS'es. No, by that argument, given that there are more than a dozen GNU/Linux systems out there, there are more internal fights in the Linux camp. Not to mention things like duplicated drivers in the kernel itself. cjs -- Curt Sampson cjs@portal.ca Info at http://www.portal.ca/ Internet Portal Services, Inc. Through infinite myst, software reverberates Vancouver, BC (604) 257-9400 In code possess'd of invisible folly.