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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.cac.psu.edu!news.pop.psu.edu!hudson.lm.com!news.galt.com!alex From: alex@nine.org (Alex Wetmore) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: To Merge or Not to Merge *BSD. What does it really mean? Date: 12 Jan 1995 22:18:48 GMT Organization: Galt Technologies, Inc. Lines: 20 Message-ID: <3f49s8$k60@dagny.galt.com> References: <3f15dh$bp@knobel.GUN.de> <3f1h83$hgl@newshost.lanl.gov> <3f253c$es0@agate.berkeley.edu> <3f41piINNq16@python.cis.ohio-state.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: nine.ws.cc.cmu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] mark anthony kolesar (kolesar@cis.ohio-state.edu) wrote: : Here at Ohio State University, I rarely hear anything about BSD, but you : constantly hear about Linux. It is a shame that there is so much duplication : of effort in the BSD camp. I can understand the ego issue, but around here : at least, Linux increasingly appears to be the defacto Un*x standard. I think that this is more of a function of Linux's adoption by the press as the free unix (for some reason most press-folks seem to think *BSD is harder to install or less functional or just not where it is at). Its also a function of Linux being better positioned as a system to install when you've never touched unix before, the installation and administration in some of the packaged installs can protect you from a lot of unix stuff and what not. I don't think that merging the two BSDs is going to get them more press or make it easier for users to install... You could say it is ashame that Linux and BSD aren't merged, but frankly I don't think I want a lot of the people who write code for Linux writing code for *BSD. alex