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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.help:8340 comp.os.386bsd.questions:6743 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!mp.cs.niu.edu!t90yuan From: t90yuan@mp.cs.niu.edu (yuan tzeng) Subject: Re: SUMMARY: FreeBSD vs. Linux Message-ID: <1993Nov11.232512.14790@mp.cs.niu.edu> Organization: Northern Illinois University References: <2brq1b$a8j@news.ysu.edu> <2bs065$1gd@news.cs.tulane.edu> <CGC6nH.J08@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 23:25:12 GMT Lines: 33 In article <CGC6nH.J08@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> pitts@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu (Jim Pitts) writes: >In article <2bs065$1gd@news.cs.tulane.edu> cajho@uno.edu writes: > >Around here, Linux is the way people go. Being personally biased >towards Free/NetBSD, I try to encourate people to at least consider >alternate systems to Linux. > >end with a somewhat luke warm version of unix. In the end they >generally wind up wanting to do things that I do in FreeBSD that they >can't do in Linux. Jim, this statement, you know, is not true. > >So, obviously I think that Linux is a great package for someone wanting >a Unix/X system with no investment in hardware. But if you got the >resources, don't mess around with it. You get what you pay for. Jim, you made a great point on the posting, but again, this paragraph is totally making no sense to me. > >Hey, this is my personal opinion. Don't burn me for it! This does :-) > > Jim > -- [Tzeng Ruey Yuan] --yuan