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From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Can we quit with the "LINUX SUCKS" headers now please?
Date: 12 Nov 1994 06:33:10 GMT
Organization: HeadCandy Associates... Sweets for the lobes.
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Message-ID: <MICHAELV.94Nov12003310@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>
References: <JKH.94Nov10141530@freefall.cdrom.com> <3a0904$33j@Mercury.mcs.com>
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In-reply-to: wdespe@MCS.COM's message of 11 Nov 1994 11:17:56 -0600
I'm only going to address one point...
In article <3a0904$33j@Mercury.mcs.com> wdespe@MCS.COM (Wilfred Despe) writes:
Another reason was that installing FreeBSD v1.0 with my hardware
configuration was not very easy. I had 20 megs of RAM and a 1542CF
SCSI controller; with the bounce-buffer support not there I wasnt
about to pull out my memory just to install. I saw this as a major
obstacle; I also saw this as an indicator of the rate of
development considering Linux had the bounce-buffer support at the
same time.
This is a bad assumption to make. The rate of development is high on
all the systems. But every system has different areas of emphasis.
Just because FreeBSD and NetBSD didn't have bounce buffers at the time
didn't mean they were developing more slowly -- they were just
developing in different areas.
The biggest reason there are three free unix systems is mainly because
there are so many different areas of interest. Linux developed bounce
buffers first, but it didn't develop everything first. There are lots
of things that NetBSD and FreeBSD have that Linux doesn't (and vice
versa).
Linux gave you an important feature you were looking for. If it meets
your needs the best, use it. But don't assume that just because a
certain set of features exists only in Linux that the same isn't true
in the other BSD systems.
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Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com michaelv@iastate.edu
Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x for PC/Mac/Amiga/etc.
Working NetBSD ports: 386+PC, Mac, Amiga, HP300, Sun3, Sun4c, PC532
In progress: DEC pmax (MIPS R2k/3k), VAX, Sun4m
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