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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.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!imci2!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.thepoint.net!news1!not-for-mail From: root@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD ... X-Nntp-Posting-Host: dyson.iquest.net Message-ID: <4n1535$9b@dyson.iquest.net> Sender: news@iquest.net (News Admin) Organization: John S. Dyson's Machine References: <3188C1E2.45AE@onramp.net> <Dr1wrL.My0@kithrup.com> <3191B103.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> <3193B4A1.41C67EA6@interbay.net.au> Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 04:29:25 GMT Lines: 27 >Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > To a point, yes. I'm happy to see the users get a reasonable selection of > choices, that's certainly true, but I'm not all that sure if a rabid > proliferation of products is in anybody's best interests either. I looked > at a recent pack called the "Linux hacker's 10", for example, and "padded > out" does not even attempt to describe it. A CD full of MPEG files? > Another of wallpaper backgrounds? The GNU CD? [most of which is utterly > redundant considering that it's already part of Linux!] I won't even go into > amount of redundancy involved in their multiple-CD dumps of TSX-11 and > Sunsite. Suffice it to say that there's such a thing as simply inundating > the user with data in hopes they'll think they're getting some sort of > super deal. More is not always better. > -- > - Jordan Hubbard > President, FreeBSD Project Looking at this again, kind of reminds me of the Poly-Pak's of the '60s and '70s. They sold lots of transistors, surplus parts, etc. It was so entertaining to see their paper that they sent out periodically. They would sell you a bag of transistors, LED's or somesuch... U-Test'EM... :-). Kind-of sounds like the "Linux hacker's 10". Can't wait until the hacker's 20 comes out, because I need 18 CDROM's of junk (maybe two of them have good stuff on 'em). :-). John