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From: Martin.Kraemer@mch.sni.de (Martin Kraemer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Why would I want LINUX?
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Date: 19 Aug 1993 08:22:09 GMT
Organization: Siemens Nixdorf AG
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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
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