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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2217 comp.os.linux.misc:12381 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!usc!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!sgiblab!cs.uoregon.edu!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!owl.csrv.uidaho.edu!igo921 From: igo921@cs.uidaho.edu (Lester Igo) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux Date: 4 Apr 1994 08:44:56 GMT Organization: University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho Lines: 31 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2nok28INN57u@owl.csrv.uidaho.edu> References: <CMzw69.92K@tower.nullnet.fi> <2nmeb4$ro@menudo.uh.edu> <JKH.94Apr3184442@whisker.hubbard.ie> <MAGNUS.94Apr3194958@haukugle.ii.uib.no> <2nnjcb$pdo@larch.cc.swarthmore.edu> <2nob90$dlq@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: brownlee.cs.uidaho.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] lilo (lilo@slip-10-11.ots.utexas.edu) wrote: : On 3 Apr 1994 23:27:07 GMT, Randolph G. Brown (brown@cs.swarthmore.edu) wrote: : > Frankly, I think it's good in the long run that we now have _3_ : > distinct evolving free-unix communities --- the cross-fertilization : > will be good for all three, at least for a while. Their work does us : > all good, and the loss of one community will harm us all. : That's so true....what we have here is a case where three separate groups of : people have each done a major service to the free-unix community as a whole. : The only result is that "competition" produces a stronger desire to put out : a better product--which I think is a very good thing. But I'd rather view : the situation as "three success stories" than concentrate on the competitive : aspects. I agree very much with these two people and their positions. The main thing is to promote unix and at the same time keep some compitition going to further advances in both sides. I am somewhat surprised at the Linux people talking about the instalation as "dos-like". I found it to be absolutely nothing like a dos installation. It could be caracterized as bug free, informative, menu driven, self explanitory, etc. but definutely not dos like (for one thing DOS instalations have bugs). Anyone out there ever try and hack around Microshafts copy protection on their upgrade (just exit with F3??, run fdisk, sys the partition, and run install from their [absolutely no previous version required, as the install program claims]). -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- | Lester Igo | email- igo921@uidaho.edu | | 316 Gault Hall | Gault Hall Treasurer | | 5-8653 | | | Comp. Eng. | | -------------------------------------------------------------------