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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.aix Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!bry From: bry@netcom.com (Bryan Althaus) Subject: Re: ISP hardware/software choices (performance comparison) Message-ID: <bryDL90q4.AB2@netcom.com> Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.aix Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] References: <4cmopu$d35@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4crliv$smk@olympus.nwnet.net> <4cuums$bi1@helena.MT.net> <30F8483A.7187@commerce.uq.edu.au> <DL7yHA.K98@metrics.com> Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 00:44:28 GMT Lines: 16 Sender: bry@netcom8.netcom.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:1842 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:1974 comp.unix.solaris:56626 comp.unix.aix:68200 Tom Haapanen (tomh@metrics.com) wrote: : David Bellamy <bellamy@commerce.uq.edu.au> writes: : > BSD derived systems are pretty well dead (yes I'm sure there is an : > exception, somewhere) but most mainstream suppliers now are using SVR4 : > derived systems. : You just "forgot" about BSDI, FreeBSD and NetBSD, didn't you? They still : look amazingly slive to me ... Not compared to Linux! Their are alot of talented BSD people who could be helping the Linux group but instead just in the UNIX tradition you have all these different variants of free UNIX. Luckily Caldera choose Linux as most people are, and more importantly Linux trys to be POSIX compliant meaning their is no BSD or SYSV bias!