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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:325 comp.os.386bsd.misc:710 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: Why would I want LINUX? Message-ID: <hastyCC0ys1.MvI@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <55270001@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM> <24gnu4$skm@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <24m779$b0h@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1993 21:09:36 GMT Lines: 53 In article <24m779$b0h@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US> earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US (Greg Earle) writes: >In article <24gnu4$skm@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>, >Olaf Titz <s_titz@ira.uka.de> wrote: >[ Someone else who uses DOS asks why one would want Linux] >>A couple of good reasons: >>... > >isolar:2:40 % ls -R1 /var/spool/news/comp/os/386bsd | egrep '^[1-9]' | wc -l > 226 >isolar:2:41 % ls -R1 /var/spool/news/comp/os/linux | egrep '^[1-9]' | wc -l > 1593 > I am not sure that the sheer volume of postings constitutes something good. In fact, if people have to post all the time it may be because their is lack of information distribution or something outright wrong. I have answer numerous postings about XS3 all which are probably documented somewhere in linux land or because the Linux activits have not learned the fine Art of looking for an answer to their questions in their posted newsgroup. Sometimes I am amazed that after I have answer a question just 5 or more postings later basically the same question gets posted again by another Linux user. It appears at least in my case, that Linux users are happy posters (as in trigger-happy). We have a news archive in Australis which we telnet to and which we can do simple greps on subject lines and also we can dowload subject indexes as well as whole batch of old postings. It helps both to eliminate mundane postings as well as to quickly get your answer. The 386bsd community in terms of development tends to be quiet and personal mostly due to popular hostile postings against progress in our newsgroup. For instance, NetBSD is being ported to different platforms and I hear is up and running on some platforms. Part of the lack of development effort is due to the syndrome of lets wait for Bill Jolitz release. This problem has been directly addressed by FreeBSD and NetBSD. Cheers, Amancio Hasty -- This message brought to you by the letters X and S and the number 3 Amancio Hasty | Home: (415) 495-3046 | ftp-site depository of all my work: e-mail hasty@netcom.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/incoming