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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:4450 comp.os.linux.misc:31854 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!news.alpha.net!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!ub!ns1.potsdam.edu!news.potsdam.edu!nelson From: nelson@crynwr.crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: BSD vs. LINUX Date: 17 Dec 1994 04:45:36 GMT Organization: Crynwr Software Lines: 40 Distribution: world Message-ID: <NELSON.94Dec16234536@crynwr.crynwr.com> References: <KSTAILEY.94Dec8195010@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> <NELSON.94Dec12103328@crynwr.crynwr.com> <3cht7r$ajk@solaris.cc.vt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: nh2.potsdam.edu In-reply-to: jlido@cray-ymp.acm.stuorg.vt.edu's message of 12 Dec 1994 16:20:11 GMT [ I'm just arguing 'cuz it's fun to do. If you want to run BSD, run BSD. If you want to run Linux, run Linux. There's a big market for both OS'es. So don't have a cow. -russ] In article <3cht7r$ajk@solaris.cc.vt.edu> jlido@cray-ymp.acm.stuorg.vt.edu (Jon 'Mr. Outrageous' Lido) writes: nelson@crynwr.crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) wrote: >You goober! LINUX has brought DOOM to UN*X! What more could you >possibly want? So Doom is part of Linux now? Come on! Linux had nothing to do with it. There's nothing special about Linux that makes Doom run on it, except some guy at iD thought it would be cool to port it to his Linux box. Duh. ddt <em>said</em> that he did it because Linux was cool, not because it was a cool thing to do. Besides, Linux isn't the only "UN*X" to run Doom. Yeah, and how many people have NeXT boxen? Yggdrasil is selling Linux CD-ROMs at 10K/month. Given that they're doing quarterly CD-ROMs, that's at least 30K users, and that's just one distribution (which I happen to not be running, so we know it's 30001 users at least). >[ this, in addition to all the other, more serious and worthwhile > additions to UN*X ] Linux brings us the tri-weekly kernel patch! (You "tri" it and your computer is broken for a week! :) Isn't it a good idea to have the option? If I use BSD or any proprietary Unix, weekly patches simply aren't an option. If you don't like them, don't use them. -- -russ <nelson@crynwr.com> http://www.crynwr.com/crynwr/nelson.html Crynwr Software | Crynwr Software sells packet driver support | ask4 PGP key 11 Grant St. | +1 315 268 1925 (9201 FAX) | What is thee doing about it? Potsdam, NY 13676 | What part of "Congress shall make no law" eludes Congress?