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#! rnews 2529 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Portugal.EU.net!news.rccn.net!newsfeed.sunet.se!news01.sunet.se!sunic!news99.sunet.se!news.funet.fi!news.csc.fi!nokia.fi!ntc.nokia.com!usenet From: ptaipale@madonna.trs.ntc.nokia.com (Pekka J Taipale) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: a monthly FreeBSD magazine (and other *BSD's too) Date: 18 Dec 1995 23:52:51 +0200 Organization: Nokia Telecommunications Oy, Access Systems Lines: 22 Sender: ptaipale@madonna.trs.ntc.nokia.com Message-ID: <1pka3unioc.fsf@madonna.trs.ntc.nokia.com> References: <4ajc07$sb7@unix2.glink.net.hk> <4arhgi$f0c@felix.junction.net> <4as2e7$91r@cnn.Princeton.EDU> <4asrpo$85k@agate.berkeley.edu> <4atie8$hsv@agate.berkeley.edu> Reply-To: Pekka.Taipale@ntc.nokia.com NNTP-Posting-Host: madonna.trs.ntc.nokia.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-reply-to: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu's message of 16 Dec 1995 04:37:28 GMT X-Disclaimer: I speak for myself, not Nokia Telecommunications Oy X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.admin:36175 alt.os.linux:6516 comp.os.linux.advocacy:30757 comp.os.linux.misc:76298 comp.os.linux.setup:32862 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10738 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:1599 Aw please, quit this thread. At least get technical and discuss the real differences of Linux and FreeBSD. There's no point in having Linux and FreeBSD advocates fight each other. Both should concentrate on bashing Microsoft, who really deserves it. I'm sure Linux and FreeBSD are about equally great systems. Their differences lie in the way their designers work. Linux is anarchistic, FreeBSD is centralistic. Fine, both are valid approaches and fill out different gaps. I have no real experience of FreeBSD except as an ISP customer - the ISP uses both Linux and FreeBSD: Linux for drivers, FreeBSD for reputation of stable network code. Linux and FreeBSD benefit from each other, they share technical development work. So please be polite to each other. I use Linux as my primary working platform, and it works so great that I see no point in converting to FreeBSD, but I'm sure that if there was need, FreeBSD would serve me at least equally well. (Perhaps excluding DOSEMU). -- Pekka.Taipale@ntc.nokia.com