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From: 31khoo@wmich.edu (Patrick Khoo)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: I hope this won't ignite a major flame war, but I've got to know!
Message-ID: <1994Jul18.093302.19670@wmichgw>
Date: 18 Jul 94 09:33:02 EDT
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Organization: Western Michigan University
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In article <30drlt$7tc@news.u.washington.edu>, tzs@u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) writes:
> I realize I'm treading on dangerous ground here, since I'm going to
> mention {Free,Net)BSD and Linux in the same post, but something
> puzzles me.  From what I've read (I've not had a chance to try any
> of these systems yet--I'm still shopping for hardware to try them
> out), {Free,Net}BSD are Berkeley-like (duh!) and Linux is closer to
> System V.
> Historically, these classes of people have preferred Berkeley Unix
> to System V.  System V appealed to the corporate world, where what
> was important was a supported Unix.

History is changing?

> 
> Hence, I would expect {Free,Net}BSD to be overwhelmingly more popular
> than Linux.  Yet, based on the volume of posting on the net, the number
> of FTP sites that carry each system, and the number of CD-ROM places that
> I've seen selling each, it seems the Linux is by far the winner in the
> popularity contest.
> 
> What is going on here?
> 
> --Tim Smith

Very simple Tim, Anyone and i mean Anyone can work on Linux development. The
development is open and releases are fast (blazingly fast kernel releases!) As
opposed to Free/NetBSD. As such, a hacker would prefer Linux, where he/she can
hack and get updates fast.

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