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From: burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: NetBSD-0.9 partitioning
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Date: 16 Sep 93 17:11:00 GMT
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In article <27at7t$jup@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:
>
>Competition?  I don't think you can call two freely available *nix
>operating systems *competition*.  I would much rather see folks be using
>Linux than be moving towards using NT, or DOS.  That is where the
>*competition* should be.  
>
>Long live *ALL* free uni*es. 
>

Here, here.

I agree with this whole heartedly.  There is plenty enough RAW talent to
go around.  With a 'market' of two or three free uni*es, there is plenty
of fertile ground to plant and cultivate new ideas.  Loadable Kernel
Modules are neat, and a part of NetBSD.  The new install procedures for
FreeBSD are on their way to becoming an 'industry' standard.  The Linux
way of doing things is definitely different, but it is no less right or
wrong than the way the BNR/2 systems do their thing.

Does anyone honestly believe that the developers of software for *BSD
completely ignore Linux?  Or that the NetBSD folks completely ignore the
FreeBSD stuff?  I would be willing to guess that for half of that group
they would spend a lot of time ignoring themselves.

We aren't talking about competing product lines with FreeBSD and NetBSD;
we are talking about two systems, conceived for the same reason, at
about the same time, with two distinct and seperate purposes.  I Like
it.



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