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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.uoregon.edu!pagesat.net!napoleon.dbeach.com.!usenet From: David Albany <hanz@mail.dbeach.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD - have an faq Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 21:31:37 -0700 Organization: V-Soccer Lines: 37 Message-ID: <31EC6CA9.52B9@mail.dbeach.com> References: <4s9l9o$d9t@nyx10.cs.du.edu> <31EA6DA9.7D114A71@w3page.com> <4se73m$ks@hermes.acs.unt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dbmd085.dbeach.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) Bruce Jackson wrote: > > In article <31EA6DA9.7D114A71@w3page.com>, > Blaine Minazzi <bminazzi@w3page.com> wrote: > > > Please remember that both Operating Systems are nothing more than > > tools to accomplish a task, they are not religions, political > > systems, or any such things. > > > Anyone who cannot discuss such things rationally and unemotionally > > should perhaps consider professional help in obtaining a life. :-) > > Man are you naive. Human beings are so insecure that they must > constantly justify their choices to themselves and others. You are no > more likely to find an impartial analysis of FreeBSD vs. Linux than > you are of Ford vs. Chevy, Harley Davidson vs. BMW, or Christianity > vs. Islam. After making their choice people need to reassure > themselves that they made the right choice by trashing the other > choices. By putting other people down they build themselves up. > > -- > Bruce Jackson | P. O. Box 13886-NT | GAB 550E > UNIX Systems Admin. | Denton TX 76203-3886 | (817)565-2279 > Computer Sciences | jackson@cs.unt.edu | FAX (817)565-2799 > Univ. of North Texas | http://replicant.csci.unt.edu/~jackson/ I agree wholeheartedly..... inested of having a comparason by an impartial group which is hard to find... do this .. have a site which contain the opinion of a die hard FreeBSD group together with the opinion of a die hard Linux group and then let every one decide which is hype and which more likely to be true (the beginners who can not understand the discussion need not worry since any system is more than likely to serve thier prupose of learning U*ix cheaply) I know it is dream but I think it is a better one since if it ever happens this is the best way to go about it :-) Dave