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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.help:8688 comp.os.386bsd.questions:6842 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!world!entropy From: entropy@world.std.com (Lawrence Foard) Subject: Re: SUMMARY: FreeBSD vs. Linux Message-ID: <CGGsGx.9J2@world.std.com> Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA References: <2brq1b$a8j@news.ysu.edu> <2bs065$1gd@news.cs.tulane.edu> Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1993 04:29:21 GMT Lines: 21 In article <2bs065$1gd@news.cs.tulane.edu>, <cajho@uno.edu> wrote: >Hmmm. If Linux is so scary and NetBSD so nice, why so many Linux users and >why is Linux growing so damn fast? It just seems like Linux exploded... >This is a serious question, not a jab at the BSD folks. I am wondering what it >is about Linux that is causing this... I'm also surprised that so few people hack on the BSD kernel if its as nice as its supposed to be. I've made a number of Linux kernel modifications with little trouble understanding the kernel (even with no comments :). I think the hack that people are willing to work on improving the Linux kernel, and the fact that Linus includes the improviments is a big part of the reason its doing so well. With the exception of the flakey net stuff, Linux is definitly the best OS I've seen. I can't remember the last time Linux crashed for a non net related problem... -- ------ Legalize: >--<o | If we where meant to hack God would . \ / :-)-~ o>--< | have given us jacks. . . \ / You are ~1,000,000,000,000,000 .1ms NAND gates have a nice day. . . . \/ The true theory of everything will run on a finite turing machine. . . .