*BSD News Article 49854


Return to BSD News archive

Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!news.seanet.com!news.seanet.com!michaelv
From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: New Pricing: Is BSDI brain damaged?
Date: 25 Aug 1995 06:26:15 GMT
Organization: HeadCandy Associates... Sweets for the lobes.
Lines: 18
Message-ID: <MICHAELV.95Aug24232615@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>
References: <41i2i6$mmc@homer.alpha.net> <41i3nn$3c6@pachyderm.lm.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: mindbender.seanet.com
In-reply-to: doug@telerama.lm.com's message of 24 Aug 1995 10:52:39 -0400

In article <41i3nn$3c6@pachyderm.lm.com> doug@telerama.lm.com (Doug Luce) writes:

   [...]
   Real (cheap) alternatives to BSD/OS might include NetBSD/FreeBSD or
   Linux.  And they come with as good as or better support than NT.

That certainly depends on how you define support, and this statement
certainly is not true in all cases (possibly not even the majority of
cases where NT would even be a viable alternative).

--
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
  Michael L. VanLoon                                 michaelv@HeadCandy.com
       --<  Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x  >--
     NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac, Amiga, HP300, Sun3, Sun4, PC532,
                           DEC pmax (MIPS R2k/3k), DEC/AXP (Alpha)
     NetBSD ports in progress: VAX and others...
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -