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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!ix.netcom.com!enews.sgi.com!news.be.com!news1.crl.com!nexp.crl.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 02:30:00 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 21 Message-ID: <32F9B2A8.52BFA1D7@FreeBSD.org> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <slrn5fejrn.353.bet@onyx.interactive.net> <5d8f4p$jto@junkie.gnofn.org> <5d94nk$p9n@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> <5d9i3q$61h@junkie.gnofn.org> <5daa0m$on2@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) To: rajat@ix.netcom.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:82423 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2244 comp.os.linux.misc:156177 Rajat Datta wrote: > up with BSD systems in my programming career, and if it hadn't been > for the attitude of some of the early BSD developers I would have been > running FreeBSD (wasn't it called BSD386 back then?) instead of Linux. Urgh, no, it was never BSD386 (BSDI's product) or even 386BSD, though it did share a remarkable similarity to 386BSD for all of 5 months or so until the Novell decision came smashing down, then it was re-written from scratch starting with the 4.4 Lite tape. > In fact, I just bought a new disk and am waiting for FreeBSD 2.2 to > come out to install it so that the stuff I'm developing will be > available for both Linux and FreeBSD. Great, always glad to hear this. > They meet different needs, serve different people. Diversity is great. Amen. -- - Jordan Hubbard