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From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Extremely low memory system
Date: 19 Sep 1995 05:14:47 GMT
Organization: HeadCandy Associates... Sweets for the lobes.
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In-reply-to: Eric Ewanco's message of 18 Sep 1995 13:20:05 GMT
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In article <EJE.95Sep18092005@eje.xyplex.com> Eric Ewanco <eje@world.std.com> writes:
In article <MICHAELV.95Sep17014327@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon) writes:
> In addition, don't mean to start a flame-war, but you might consider
> FreeBSD or NetBSD instead of Linux for those things. It would feel
> much more familiar to all those people would would be used to using
> all those Ultrix (a BSD derivative) DECstations you guys have all over
> the place.
Well, with all due respect, as a former Digital employee who had a
DECstation for 3 1/2 years (and used them at school for 3 years
before that, I found easing into Linux trivial and the vast
majority of what I was used to was present on Linux.
You don't count -- you were a computer professional.
Iowa State has roughly 600 Ultrix DECstations which are used by mostly
Unix novices. Ultrix is BSD Unix. NetBSD is BSD. FreeBSD is BSD.
You work out the correlation.
I didn't mean to imply Linux was bad. But you can't convince me that
anything is more like a BSD-based Unix (Ultrix) than another BSD.
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Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com
--< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >--
NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, HP300, Sun3, Sun4,
DEC PMAX (MIPS), DEC Alpha, PC532
NetBSD ports in progress: VAX, Atari 68k, others...
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