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#! rnews 3352 bsd 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!spool.mu.edu!news.sol.net!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.interserv.net!news1.sprynet.com!news From: Stephane Russell <sstef@sprynet.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD ... Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 18:34:44 -0400 Organization: MSI Bureautique Inc. Lines: 62 Message-ID: <3197B904.41C67EA6@sprynet.com> References: <3188C1E2.45AE@onramp.net> <4mnsc5$6qo@sundial.sundial.net> <3191ADA0.41C67EA6@sprynet.com> <3196830F.275A@mts.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: dd03-098.compuserve.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) Martin Nisshagen wrote: > > Stephane Russell wrote: >> >> And what about Windows 95, OS/2 and MAC computers? Are they >> leaving room for those fights? All of them have strong features >> that Unices have to compete with. > > FreeBSD's mission is *not* to kill MS or Apple or any such things. Not > even commercial and supported (non-free) unices like BSDI, Solaris, > SCO is any 'enemies' to FreeBSD. I actually think the best thing with > FreeBSD is that it's goal is not to replace every PC or Mac OSes. I never meant that. You misunderstood what I was meaning by "All of them have strong features that Unices have to compete with". I was not meaning "compete to take over the enemies" but "compete to keep its place among the others". And I was talking of all Unices, not just Free ones. I never wanted FreeBSD or any other OS to take over the PC market or anything. This would be short view thinking. Even if I now use FreeBSD most of the time, I still love and use DOS and Windows 3.1. All my first steps on PCs have been made on MS-DOS and I consider Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 as an interesting evolution of it. My intention was more to point out that the disunity of the Unix world was not helping Unix users. Everybody have the right to be proud if his Unix and to think it's the best in the world (like mine ;-), as long as it dosn't mean for that person that everybody should be using the same. I wanted to say also that Unix users should always consider any Unix user as a Unix user before a FreeBSD/Linux/SCO/UnixWare/DellUnix/BSDI/WhoCares user first of all. Unix will probably remain a small "niche" market. For that reason, it seems to me that this world should be tighter than that. FreeBSD users should be thanking Linux users for using a Unix, and vice-versa. Instead, a lot of Linux/FreeBSD users are trying to convince the others side that, too bad for them, they *are* using the wrong operating system. Anyhow, I guess we'll have to live with it. Maybe, long ago, I was too impressed by the SVR4.2 attempt to unify Unix over one binary standard. > > m a r t i n n - User of several free and commercial OSes > (FreeBSD, OS/2, Solaris, NT, VMS). > > -- > Martin Nisshagen martin@mts.se (MIME 1.0) "verdi + callas = > MTS Technology, Sweden http://www.mts.se/martin 100% pleasure..." stef -- # Place your signature information here Name <user@my.domain> | Joke City, Country |