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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:5163 comp.os.386bsd.misc:1030 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!network.ucsd.edu!ogicse!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!natinst.com!hrd769.brooks.af.mil!hrd769.brooks.af.mil!not-for-mail From: burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: NetBSD-0.9 partitioning Message-ID: <27b9si$igr@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> Date: 16 Sep 93 17:11:00 GMT Article-I.D.: hrd769.27b9si$igr References: <1993Sep8.231610.9740@ccds3.ntu.edu.tw> <277do6$4hj@fw.novatel.ca> <hastyCDGHIw.L8F@netcom.com> <27at7t$jup@pdq.coe.montana.edu> Organization: Armstrong Laboratory, Brooks AFB, TX Lines: 37 NNTP-Posting-Host: hrd769.brooks.af.mil 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. -- ------ TSgt Dave Burgess NCOIC AL/Management Information Systems Office Brooks AFB, TX