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Path: sserve!euryale!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Difference between FreeBSD and NetBSD Date: 7 Aug 1995 15:16:46 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 32 Message-ID: <405aou$935@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3v8b7r$ju0@trauma.rn.com> <3vppa0$c33@park.uvsc.edu> <MICHAELV.95Aug5124114@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <403j7a$kh1@nnrp2.primenet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <403j7a$kh1@nnrp2.primenet.com>, Keith Rowland <keithr@primenet.com> wrote: >We would like a gross generalization, but don't understand what flame >war would start. You mean you gentlemen can't even discuss the various >features of each incarnation of BSD without pissing people off! No, it's simply too much of a moving target to discuss reasonably. You want a synopsis of how these discussions go? I'll give you one: Q0: "What's the difference between foo and bar?" A0: Bar has better gronkulating. A1: Bar may have better gronkulating, but foo's is getting better and besides we've implemented automatic breem tracking when foo doesn't do it at all. A0: We were talking about the situation _now_, you moron! Until foo has good gronkulating, you just can't use it for counting strakes during the migratory season! A1: You're just jealous about the breem tracking! Sour grapes! Sour grapes! A2: Excuse me, but I think both of you are complete pasta-heads. Why can't you guys just get along? Q1: Excuse me guys, but what's better: bar or bleet? >I tried to read the newsgroups for a list of differences, and this >thread is the first yet to come up and then you guys blow him off! Hardly the first, trust me.. :-) Why don't you look at http://www.freebsd.org and http://www.netbsd.org? Both groups have done a pretty good job of summarising their strengths. Check it out! Jordan