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From: orc@pell.chi.il.us (Orc)
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 17:56:23 -0800
Organization: Lust corrodes my body
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In article <4a3dqe$tr8@daffy.anetsrvcs.uwrf.edu>,
BENJAMIN A LINDSTROM <bl03@uwrf.edu> wrote:
>Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote: >: orc@pell.chi.il.us (Orc) wrote:
>: ] It's good that Linux does support all this funky hardware, but
>: ] it certainly isn't because it's Linux -- it just has a larger
>: ] userbase than the xBSD systems do. As the xBSD user community
>: ] grows, that userbase will result in more funky hardware support,
>: ] which is as it should be.
>:
>: I'd like to question this premise. UnixWare has a larger user
>: base than Linux, yet UnixWare doesn't support QIC-40/80 drives.
>:
>:
>Maybe a better comment would be:
>
>"Active User Development community"...Since it's the hackers with ODD
>hardware that is doing the ports. =)
Perhaps. I was painting the world with a fairly broad brush and
ignoring all the object-code-only versions of Unix. I don't really
know how big the UnixWare userbase is, but I would suspect that it's
smaller than both Linux and FreeBSD.
But even ignoring object-code-only systems is not valid --
MS-DOS, for all of its grottiness, supports a whole shitload of odd
little peripherals, even if making some of them work is rather like
pulling teeth.
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david parsons \bi/ orc@pell.chi.il.us
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