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From: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD
Date: 27 Aug 1995 01:13:43 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) wrote:
] I'm really speaking only for the "hoi polloi",
] not for system hackers or Unix gurus.
] Most people getting a free Unix are not going to buy books
] to see how it should be run.
] Linux has excellent books as part of the standard distribution;
] FreeBSD does not.
I FTP'ed SlackWare from the FreeBSD machine that is it's home site.
Is there a better utility for pulling physical objects down over
an ethernet? The books didn't transfer, even though I got the
"standard distribution". Do I have to wait for the "Free Stuff
Foundtaion's" "Matter Compiler" before doing this? I though that
there wasn't any commercial nanotechnology yet, let alone a free
version.
8-) 8-).
] In my opinion this is the major single reason
] why 10 times as many people use Linux as FreeBSD.
I find this hard to believe.
I think it's because Linux-oids post in every news group, including
this one, claiming Linux is more popular. I also think the "10
times as many" claim is specious, and I'd like to see some numbers
to back this claim up.
] [There was a rather similar issue with TeX/LaTeX.
] There used to be many other macro packages similar to LaTeX,
] some of them I've no doubt as good if not better.
] But LaTeX came with a comprehensive manual,
] which at the time was part of the package --
] now you have to pay for it --
] and that in my view was why LaTeX has buried its competitors.]
That would be other markup languages, like roff, troff, HTML,
and PostScript? HP shipping that LaTeX printer yet? NCSA and
Netscape putting out those LaTeX aware browsers yet?
8-).
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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or previous employers.