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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uchinews!news From: csdayton+usenet@midway.uchicago.edu (Soren Dayton) Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD ... In-Reply-To: b.j.smith@ieee.org's message of 7 May 1996 16:05:25 GMT X-Nntp-Posting-Host: woodlawn.uchicago.edu Message-ID: <xcd3f5csajb.fsf@woodlawn.uchicago.edu> To: b.j.smith@ieee.org (Bryan J. Smith, E.I.) Lines: 21 Sender: csdayton@woodlawn.uchicago.edu Organization: uchi.comp.unix viper cabal X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.0.12 References: <3188C1E2.45AE@onramp.net> <4mnsc5$6qo@sundial.sundial.net> Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 16:39:04 GMT Our friend, b.j.smith@ieee.org (Bryan J. Smith, E.I.), wrote: > Linux, since it is written from the ground-up, is a much more efficient OS > than FreeBSD (which has been written somewhat from the ground up, to prevent > a lawsuit from BSDI, is still a lot of legacy OS code). You are going to have to explain this causal relationship to my little mind > And FreeBSD v2.1 is > a little dated (late '94) Funny. My 2.1 has system binaries from November 95. > and the current test version is still quite buggy. > wow, test version that say *ONLY HACKERS USE THIS* are not stable. I think I might just die from shock. Soren