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From: orc@pell.chi.il.us (Orc)
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Questions about Linux vs. FreeBSD...
Followup-To: alt.flame
Date: 15 Dec 1995 04:22:32 -0800
Organization: The Deacon Brodie Fan Club
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In article <4aqdpk$552@solaris.cc.vt.edu>,
Giao Nguyen <grail@cray-ymp.acm.stuorg.vt.edu> wrote:
>Christopher B. Browne (cbbrown@io.org) wrote:
>
>: I like what I've seen of FreeBSD; the installation scheme is fairly
>: good. If it took the best of the ideas from the various Linux package
>: tools, it could possibly "win" some time down the road.
>
>I agree with you. Coming from running Red Hat Linux, the installation
>of FreeBSD is by far a better scheme than Red Hat Linux (which I consider
>to be the *best* Linux installation out there).
>
>: The *feel* of FreeBSD is a little more "professional;" I'm not sure I
>: can readily explain that. I'm not sure it's really worth anything,
>: either.
>
>Well, there is this matter of FreeBSD being a *real* UNIX where Linux is
>not.
Plan 9.
The xBSDs are awful because they are old, kludged-up code.
Linux is awful because it's not Unix.
You want Plan 9.
Because if you become a Plan 9 fanatic, you'll stop making
FreeBSD look like an idiot magnet.
____
david parsons \bi/ Now I get to start a BSD twit killfile to go along
\/ with my Linux twit killfile.