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From: dillon@apollo.west.oic.com (Matthew Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux
Date: 2 Apr 1994 09:57:33 -0800
Organization: Obvious Implementations Corp
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In article <JKH.94Apr2120330@whisker.hubbard.ie> jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:
>In article <2nhmn3$sjs@apollo.west.oic.com> dillon@apollo.west.oic.com (Matthew Dillon) writes:
>
> Personally, having worked on BSD systems for years, I prefer Linux.
> BSD has always felt, well, stuffy. From a comparative standpoint,
>...
>
>While I highly respect some of the work you have done on the Amiga
>front, this statement leads me to believe that you've never really
>looked at the code you're criticising. Do you really think we'd
>settle for non-ANSI compliant code? Much of both the FreeBSD and
>NetBSD teams' effort has been in adding extensive prototyping, and we
>run the entire codebase through `gcc -Wall' periodically. The
>mainline efforts in *BSD are anything but archaic, and this strikes me
>as simply more of the same unthinking bigotry that people in both
>camps periodically exhibit. It's both innaccurate and unnecessary.
>
> Jordan
>--
>Jordan K. Hubbard FreeBSD core team Electric Bivalves Anonymous
>On the net, no one can hear you scream.
Well, I wasn't refering to FreeBSD, but rather the Berkeley BSD release
and the Berkeley source tree (which I have extensive experience with).
You are correct in saying that I have not looked at the FreeBSD release,
and I *did* assume it was a straight port of BSD for which I apologize.
-Matt
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