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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2774 comp.os.linux.misc:20065 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!news.kei.com!travelers.mail.cornell.edu!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!news.graphics.cornell.edu!ghost.dsi.unimi.it!univ-lyon1.fr!ensta!itesec!keltia.frmug.fr.net!not-for-mail From: roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net (Ollivier Robert) 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! Date: 22 Jul 1994 21:10:06 +0200 Organization: A Happy FreeBSD 1.1.5 Usenet Site Lines: 46 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <30p5is$6ik@keltia.frmug.fr.net> References: <30fhpn$968@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <1994Jul20.040243.5860@cs.cornell.edu> <SJA.94Jul20171747@gamma.hut.fi> <1994Jul21.082033.2057@durie.wanganui.gen.nz> Reply-To: roberto@hsc.fr.net (Ollivier Robert) NNTP-Posting-Host: keltia.frmug.fr.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <1994Jul21.082033.2057@durie.wanganui.gen.nz>, Liam Greenwood <liam@durie.wanganui.gen.nz> wrote: > To many (me included to a degree...) mailing lists are 'closed' > and 'clique-ish'. News groups are open forums. If all the action is A mailing-list is not closed at all. It is even to my opinion a better way to get in touch with the developpers. > factor in the differences in popularity. Drop into a Linux newsgroup > and the the place is ahopping and abuzzin'. Drop into the 386bsd > groups and you could well be in a church or morgue. Maybe someone > should echo some of the lists to the appropriate groups. We don't want the newsgroups to be flooded by everything that goes in the mailing-lists. Does any want to see ten or twenty or so cvs commit logs in the News ?? > Why? It's much easier to hop into a group and have a quick > look, than find, subscribe, looks, unsubscribe to a mailing list. It is easier to follow in a mailing-list for a particular subject IMO. Some of my Linux friends do find the linux newsgroups unreadable now, the traffic is too high (I don't know by myself as I have barely enough time to read the *BSD newsgroups...). Anyway, does anybody agree that if competition must really be it is between commercial Unixes and free ones, not between *BSD and Linux. You'll always find someone who is a *BSD junky (like myself) or a Linux junky. Is one or a better guy than the other ? I don't think so. I've many Linux friends here in France, many are newbies from DOS so I help 'em when I can. Each of the systems have good points, let the traditionnal BSD vs Linux contest at rest for a while, it is quite boring anyway. It always ends the way, everyone keeps on using his/her OS. Linux doesn't have to steal *BSD users and *BSD users Linux's ones. Just give a free Unix to anyone who wants to run MS-DOG or WNT or anything of the sort. All are good, free and come with sources so stop fighting... -- Ollivier ROBERT roberto@hsc.fr.net Hervé Schauer Consultants Ollivier.Robert@keltia.frmug.fr.net PERL / MIME / PGP 2.6ui FreeBSD keltia 1.1.5(RELEASE) RELEASE#0 i386