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From: veit@mururoa.gmd.de (Holger Veit)
Subject: Re: Which is better ?
Message-ID: <1993May25.124129.5431@gmd.de>
Sender: veit@mururoa (Holger Veit)
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References: <1993May25.095207.25469@uxmail.ust.hk>
Date: Tue, 25 May 1993 12:41:29 GMT
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In article <1993May25.095207.25469@uxmail.ust.hk>, cs_ngfo@uxmail.ust.hk (Forrest Normandy) writes:
|> Does anyone know whether 386bsd or linux is better ?
Well, it is like the difference between an apple and a pear.
You have to taste both of them and then decide which one is better
for you. Perhaps you like both or none of them.
There is no general answer, and the only thing that will happen is
that that the pear lovers will count up the disadvantages of apples,
and the apple promoters will speak against pears (at least usually this
happened several times in the past after such questions).
And there the anaolgy ends: 386bsd and Linux are highly dynamic
beasts; the disadvantage of the one system compared to the other
might be equalized tomorrow, and a leadership today is nothing
worth any longer tomorrow.
I have special reasons why I prefer 386bsd over Linux, and others
think exactly opposite, for not less significant reasons.
Test both and then decide yourself.
Holger
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