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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.advocacy:1303 comp.os.386bsd.misc:5137 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!zib-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!news From: nickel@prz.tu-berlin.de (Juergen Nickelsen) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Switching From Linux to FreeBSD Date: 29 Jan 1995 18:37:47 GMT Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany. Lines: 25 Message-ID: <3ggn2g$e2b@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> References: <3fvdhg$34i@myrddin.imat.com> <D2wBp7.LKI@indirect.com> <abrahamyqquyxszxvh@verdande.iesd.auc.dk> <D33Kp3.DoA@indirect.com> Reply-To: nickel@cs.tu-berlin.de NNTP-Posting-Host: toftum.prz.tu-berlin.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-reply-to: wes@indirect.com's message of Sat, 28 Jan 1995 04:05:27 GMT In article <D33Kp3.DoA@indirect.com> wes@indirect.com (Barnacle Wes) writes: > 4.4 BSD is, to most UNIX hackers, the last and hopefully best of > something we're not ever going to see anymore. There is much to > learn in there, and being able to run it on affordable hardware is > a true blessing. The FreeBSD and NetBSD teams have done remarkable > jobs of taking the university BSD-Lite release and making into a > stable, reliable operating system. I agree completely. The (unfortunately two) remaing BSD teams have done a great work, and we all are blessed to be able to share it. Like someone else already said, "BSD is like a good old friend." And the Linux folks, Linus in particular, have earned their merits as well, of course. Perhaps it is like widespread folklore -- if one group ceases to exist (or to support contemporary hardware, in this case), the others still remain. I am sure that any of the Linux/BSD crowd will quite contentedly switch to the respective "other" OS in this case, if they don't carry on the tradition themselves -- despite all flames. -- Juergen Nickelsen