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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2252 comp.os.linux.misc:12551 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au!umisef From: umisef@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Bernd Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux Date: 6 Apr 1994 19:33:59 GMT Organization: Monash University Lines: 24 Message-ID: <2nv2r7$5cv@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au> References: <CMzw69.92K@tower.nullnet.fi> <2nm6tb$m6u@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <2nmeb4$ro@menudo.uh.edu> <JKH.94Apr3184442@whisker.hubbard.ie> <2nprr1$1j1@keltia.frmug.fr.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #3 (NOV) roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net (Ollivier Robert) writes: >Why there is always a flame war lurking here between Linux and *BSD ? >People choose the UNIX they want, for their own reasons whatever they are. Clap clap to this! And to illustrate the point, I might just explain why I am using linux and not *BSD.... Back in the old old days, when I first thought of installing a unix on my PC, the README to 386BSD said something like "you can test it out, from a single disk, but be sure to have your harddisk not recognized during bootup, as it might get trashed", while the linux README said something like "You can test it out. There are loads of bugs, and we guarantee for nothing. It won't do nasty things like dumping core all over your harddisk, but you still do it at your own risk". And it was this "dumping core all over the harddisk" that made my decision - and that's why I am not using *BSD today. Silly, isn't it? Bernie -- "And the band played 'Waltzing Mathilda' / as we stopped to bury our slain; And we buried ours / and the Turks buried theirs | ..... living in Oz .... And it started all over again" | (The Pogues, "Waltzing Mathilda", orig by Eric Bogle, "And the band played WM")