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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Questions about Linux vs. FreeBSD...
Date: 16 Dec 1995 05:20:42 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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toddg@cs.utexas.edu (Todd Michael Greer) wrote:
]
] I find it interesting how this whole Linux vs. FreeBSD thing gets into
] a religious war, and I've never heard anyone say anything coherent to
] claim that one is better than the other. I'm not claiming that no
] such thing could be said--just that I've not heard it.
OK. Here's a couple.
FreeBSD has a fully unified VM and buffer cache and Linux does not.
If this is really a rallying point for grundles of people,
Linux jocks will be implementing 5 minutes after reading the
thread. Soon, the information will be outdated. Then one
month later in the outer Usenet ghetto (1 week after Linux
has a unified buffer cache), someone will read this post and
respond to it, despite the fact that this paragraph exists.
Linux has a VM86() based DOS emulation environment, while FreeBSD
has to get by with a simulator, PCEMU.
If this is really a rallying point for grundles of people,
FreeBSD jocks will be implementing 5 minutes after reading the
thread. Soon, the information will be outdated. Then one
month later in the outer Usenet ghetto (1 week after FreeBSD
has VM86() based DOS emulation), someone will read this post and
respond to it, despite the fact that this paragraph exists.
It is idiotic to try to compare such fluid entities for the
benefit of fools who don't recognize the scope of fluidity
and thus ask dumb questions like "which is better?", which
can never be satisfactorily answered. If the fools think
that the question has been answered, and thus they "know which
is better", well, that simply proves that they are fools.
This is called "the law of the excluded middle", and results
from the fact that in asking the question, you have a hidden
assumption of a Platonic mean: the implied certainty in the
question that one *is* in fact "provably ontologically and
epistimologically better than the other".
Which is a fundamental logic flaw in the questioners model
of how the world actually operates.
Anything that is a rallying point will be implemented by the
lagging camp. Anything that is not a rallying point will do
nothing by create noise from opinion.
Now do you understand why no one is seriously attempting to
answer this critically stupid question?
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.