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From: uw@decum.enet.dec.com (Ul[r]i[ch] Wendl)
Subject: Re: Why would I want LINUX?
Message-ID: <1993Aug19.120938.5462@janix.pcs.dec.com>
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References: <55270001@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM> <24gnu4$skm@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <24m779$b0h@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US> <BDC.93Aug15214130@transit.ai.mit.edu> <24rbb5$t51@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> <24vd7h$frk@horus.mch.sni.de>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1993 12:09:38 GMT
In article <24vd7h$frk@horus.mch.sni.de>,
Martin.Kraemer@mch.sni.de (Martin Kraemer) writes:
>...
>Dave Burgess (burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil) wrote:
>: Most of Europe seems to have adopted Linux as their system of choice. I
>: expect that this is (in part, at least) to the fact that Linus is from
>: Europe. Why put up with those silly export restrictions and long
>: distance network connections when Linux is available right there on the
>: continent.
>
>Nope. I ("we europeans") had access to 386bsd as well as to Linux.
>[[Also these "export restrictions" on DES etc are really just a joke.
>Every mailbox or ftp server offers you a multitude of
>better-than-original crypt software packages like ufscypt etc.]] The
>reason that I decided to go the Linux way was the sheer size of 386bsd.
>In order to get a running system plus kernel sources, you just need a
>hard disk with a size multiple of what you need for Linux. When I first
>installed Linux (Oct/Nov. 1992), it was so slender that you could get
>all the base utilities including cc, emacs and kernel sources into as
>much as a 32 MB hard disk!
>
>Plus there is much more support for "cheap" hardware and for two-or-
>more-OS's-on-one-harddisk. Traditionally, when you wanted UN*X, you had
>to buy the hardware that was supported. And imho, 386bsd still has a
>bit of this attitude. Linux goes the other way: it makes the OS run on
>the hardware you've already got.
>
> Martin
Exactly!!
Or maybe the [386]bsd[386] suffer from the
association with one specific instruction set?
[hey, finally I've a 486 now!]
Or are there just so many Linus, Charlie Brown, Snoopy,... fans around? :^)
Uli
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