*BSD News Article 92365


Return to BSD News archive

Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!tezcat!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!ix.netcom.com!news
From: Dong Lin <donglin@ix.netcom.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?)
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 21:25:24 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Lines: 16
Message-ID: <5hmlnk$c3m@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com>
References: <3337e3ad.1847437@news.sprynet.com> <5hbh2g$gah$1@kayrad.ziplink.net> <333990e3.2587820@news.sprynet.com> <5hlju0$ftk$1@news.belwue.de>
NNTP-Posting-Host: wdl-ca2-11.ix.netcom.com
X-NETCOM-Date: Sun Mar 30  3:25:08 PM CST 1997
X-Newsreader: NETCOMplete/3.25
Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38074

In article <5hlju0$ftk$1@news.belwue.de>,
	schweikh@rubin.noc.dfn.de (Jens Schweikhardt) wrote:

># What *significant* things can UNIX do that NT4 or 95 can't?

You can't currently write multithreading applications on FreeBSD.  Windows NT:microkernel vs.
FreeBSD's monolithic.

>Ah! Flamebait! Let's go:
>
>What NT can't? Come with complete source? For free?
>
 
Have you been reading the source lately?