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From: albrecht@megatest.com (Dave Albrecht)
Subject: Re: BSD vs. Linux
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Date: Sat, 12 Mar 1994 01:45:07 GMT
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From article <michaelv.763141055@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu>, by michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon):
> In <1994Mar8.141900.2906@wubios.wustl.edu> david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J Camp) writes:
> 
>>What are the relative merits of NetBSD vs. Linux?  Is either
>>technically superior?  I suppose BSD is more portable.  How difficult
>>is would it be to port the Linux utilities to BSD?  -David-
> 
One factor which is vastly in favor of Linux (IMHO) which may or may not
be of interest to you is that there are a raft of people producing CDROMs
of the latest version of Linux, some to the extent of
releasing quarterly updates for very reasonable prices.  Having to download
10s of megabytes to a PC across a 14.4 modem isn't alot of fun.  I would like
to try Netbsd but have yet to hear of or see a single CDROM with the 0.9 release
on it.  I have read of a CDROM that has the latest FreeBSD on it so I might have
to settle for that even though I'd rather try NetBSD.

David Albrecht