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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!knews.uk0.vbc.net!vbcnet-gb!azure.xara.net!xara.net!netcom.net.uk!ix.netcom.com!news.enteract.com!enteract.com!not-for-mail From: ferret@enteract.com (Karl Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc Date: 24 Mar 1997 08:38:51 GMT Organization: EnterAct, L.L.C. Lines: 17 Message-ID: <5h5eir$b10@eve.enteract.com> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5dadfr$cnu@web.nmti.com> <n4stf5.tq2.ln@zen> <E6sIEF.1qE@truffula.sj.ca.us> <87endgb10k.fsf@plm.xs4all.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: adam.enteract.com X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:166185 comp.os.linux.advocacy:89760 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2875 Peter Mutsaers (plm@xs4all.nl) wrote: : : I do find it a pity that the nicest of the free Unix variants hasn't : become the most popular (FreeBSD). But I don't view it as a battle, : not even with Microsoft. Everyone must choose for himself and I don't : care what others use, as long as enough people keep using and : developing FreeBSD so that it stays useable for me. My choice of Linux was based on a number of things. The activity in the new groups, the availability of books specifically written to help newbies get things up and running, and finally the useability of the final installed system. Linux was usable out of the box which let me use it while learning how it worked. BSD would have forced a much steeper learning curve on me while I tried to get it to a useful state. Haveing a nice set of basic applications and a decent X configuration as a default would have gone a long ways toward convincing me to use BSD. As it was the choice was pretty clear.