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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:5541 comp.os.linux:10768 Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!uknet!doc.ic.ac.uk!swan.doc.ic.ac.uk!ajt From: ajt@swan.doc.ic.ac.uk (Tony Travis) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.linux Subject: Re: Catch What They're Saying About Us... Message-ID: <19qii4INN7ta@frigate.doc.ic.ac.uk> Date: 23 Sep 92 20:03:16 GMT References: <19oe23INNqh0@agate.berkeley.edu> Reply-To: ajt@rri.sari.ac.uk Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK. Lines: 30 NNTP-Posting-Host: swan.doc.ic.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6] William F. Jolitz (wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu) wrote: : : Check out the "Re: Linux or 386BSD: neither or both ??" thread in : comp.os.linux. It's pretty amazing what's being said about 386BSD and : the people who've worked so hard on it. : [...] Well, Lynne I started that thread and I think a little explanation is needed before an honest remark about the relative performance of 386BSD and Linux on the same machine provokes more unwelcome hostility between otherwise rational people (are you listening Ed?). The subject line of my original message was intended to attract comment about the genuine difficulty I (and others) have in deciding which of the two 'free' 386 Unix systems to use. Should I choose neither (and continue to use DOS) or live with both? At present, I am living with all three :-) Perhaps, in retrospect, I should have expected to be shot at by both sides but I cling to the hope that Linux and 386BSD are simply different aspects of the same thing: part of a wider effort to make good, free software available in a spirit of friendly co-operation. Tony. -- Dr. A.J.Travis, | Tony Travis Rowett Research Institute, | JANET: <ajt@uk.ac.sari.rri> Greenburn Road, Bucksburn, | other: <ajt@rri.sari.ac.uk> Aberdeen, AB2 9SB. UK. | phone: 0224-712751