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From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey)
Subject: Re: We a FAQ: Linux vs. *BSD!!!
Message-ID: <Cy82pA.3vs@lemis.de>
Organization: LEMIS, Feldatal, Germany
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 09:36:45 GMT
References: <jmonroyCxLro2.IF6@netcom.com> <JKH.94Oct13042845@freefall.cdrom.com> <37mflh$f6s@unix1.cc.uop.edu> <JKH.94Oct14221201@freefall.cdrom.com>
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In article <JKH.94Oct14221201@freefall.cdrom.com>,
Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> wrote:
>In article <37mflh$f6s@unix1.cc.uop.edu> hughes@napa.eng.uop.edu (Ken Hughes) writes:
>   Normally I would agree, but in this case I doubt that ignoring the
>   questions will stop them from being asked.  New people come into these
>
>Read what I said more carefully, please.  I didn't propose to stop the
>questions, I simply proposed to stop the answers.  The questions will
>keep coming in, but will "quench" themselves far more quickly if
>people simply ignore them.  We're always going to have this question,
>there's no doubt, so the best we can do is try to minimize the amount
>of damage it does.

How are you going to stop the answers?  Will Jesus shut up just
because you want him to?  If there isn't a FAQ, and qualified people
don't answer the questions, the only answers will be unqualified ones.
And yes, we'll discover that FreeBSD is bad because it doesn't have
tcsh.

The only sensible way to do this is with a FAQ which doesn't say which
system is better, but gives objective information about what's in each
of them.  Ideally, this would involve cooperation between FreeBSD,
NetBSD, BSDI and Linux.  I doubt you'll get the cooperation of BSDI,
but I think that the other groups could come to some kind of
agreement, and that it would be a good idea.

>I don't agree.  As you seem to concur, the FAQ will be out of date and
>essentially useless far too rapidly to make the effort of writing it
>anything but a wasted one.

All FAQs age, and this one will, at any given time, contain
out-of-date information.  That's not a reason not to produce one.  I
don't think that this kind of FAQ would be more out of date than most
others.

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Greg Lehey                       | Tel: +49-6637-1488              
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