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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Date: 7 Dec 1995 22:25:39 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4a7pl3$jns@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> <poulosioDIFAnC.ECw@netcom.com> <4972bn$psq@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <49ijf9$9rc@tombstone.kent.edu> <30BD2617.23585C28@mcs.net> <49k0dd$pfg@nntp5.u.washington.edu> <49o2n2$t4e@daffy.anetsrvcs.uwrf.edu> <49osrd$ptg@times.tfs.com> <49pb5g$di8@agate.berkeley.edu> <49s93l$a6@dyson.iquest.net> <49t2qm$dl7@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:29632 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10010 comp.unix.advocacy:11880 comp.unix.misc:19919 Patrick Yaner <p_yaner@eos.ncsu.edu> writes: > From what I can tell of all these messages posted here, it seems Linux is > an OS for those who want to get their hands dirty in the maintenance and > performance of their computer, and FreeBSD (likely -- but again I have > absolutely no idea of what the facts are -- started with similar > intentions) has been around longer, and is thus a bit more stable in > terms of development, distribution, and availability. Linux is even older than 386BSD, which is the ancestor of FreeBSD. By the time 386BSD 0.0 appeared (March 1992), i've seen Linux 0.14 (if my memory serves me well) on the same FTP server. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)