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Xref: sserve comp.unix.misc:10472 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:5115 comp.unix.bsd:13066 comp.windows.x.i386unix:5706 biz.sco.general:9201 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!hamblin.math.byu.edu!news.byu.edu!cwis.isu.edu!u.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.bsd,comp.windows.x.i386unix,biz.sco.general Subject: Re: SCO market share Date: 12 Dec 1993 00:30:55 GMT Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT Lines: 28 Message-ID: <2edonv$l5k@u.cc.utah.edu> References: <hastyCHsyEG.Mun@netcom.com> <1993Dec11.012449.99@kf8nh.wariat.org> <2ec989$knu@vanbc.wimsey.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.weber.edu In article <2ec989$knu@vanbc.wimsey.com> sl@vanbc.wimsey.com (Stuart Lynne) writes: >*bsd and Linux make a great hobby. If that's what you want to do at night >it's probably just as interesting as ham radio or model trains :-) > >But I think that it has about the same effect on the rest of the industry as >ham radio or model train enthusiats. Well maybe a little more. There are a number of changes prototyped on *BSD that are going into a future SVR4 release and/or are available publically already. Besides rather arcane kernel changes, there are sound card drivers and DOS and ISO9960 File system support (to name a couple). *BSD is my hobby because I like to program, and programming what I want to program as opposed to what I am told to program is my way of not burning out. That doesn't mean that nothing I do can be rolled over into my job, either as code or simply as experience and knowledge gained. You'd be suprised at the number of professional kernel hackers that have Linux or *BSD installed on some machine. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.