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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!adam.com.au!adam.com.au!not-for-mail From: steve@adam.com.au (Stephen White) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Why *BSD's have smaller user base ? [WAS: Can we quit with "Linux Sucks" ?] Date: 13 Dec 1994 17:27:10 +1030 Organization: ADAM Pty Ltd. Lines: 27 Message-ID: <3cjgk6$stm@adam.com.au> References: <3ah170$n5o@mall.sinica.edu.tw> <3ahojg$iis@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> <BLYMN.94Dec2175232@mallee.awadi.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: eve.adam.com.au X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Brett Lymn (blymn@awadi.com.au) wrote: : Stephen> So I judged that Linux was the happening OS, and I picked : Stephen> Linux. : Funny - when I was going through the same process I found out which OS : did what _I_ wanted. At the time 386BSD was best for me because it : had support for SLIP and I have stuck with the *BSD variants ever : since. YES I KNOW THAT LINUX HAS SLIP/OTHER SERIAL NETWORKING NOW BUT : IT DID NOT WHEN I WAS LOOKING ok? Volume in the newsgroups seems to : be (IMHO) a strange way to gauge the applicability of an OS. When I was looking, both OSs did the same things and they both had bugs and they both had features and there was no specific point to distinguish one from the other. One was BSD, one was SysV/Posix. That's all. As such, I was more interested in the attitude of the people I'd have to interact with in the course of running my system. Hence the newsgroup grep. : Leaping into the (linux|386bsd) newsgroups and telling everyone the : system you run is great and really happening it just plain stupid. I haven't done this. It looks like the rest of your message is just an anti-Linux rant without any correlation with what I've said. I'll leave you here frothing at the mouth. Let me know when you're awake again. -- steve@adam.com.au