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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
Date: 19 Feb 1997 01:31:16 GMT
Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI
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In article <5edic9$k5e@starbase.neosoft.com>,
Cameron Laird <claird@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> wrote:
> In article <5dfos0$8s9@web.nmti.com>, Peter da Silva <peter@nmti.com> wrote:
> >In article <E575K5.4yq@bigbird.telly.org>,
> >Evan Leibovitch <evan@bigbird.telly.org> wrote:
> >> WordPerfect, CorelDraw, ADABAS, ApplixWare, Wabi and Flagship have
> >> all been ported to Linux; How many are available for FreeBSD? Linux
> >> Journal is about to come out this month with its first Buyers' Guide;
> >> it'll be interesting to see just how much of what's inside is also
> >> obtainable in the FreeBSD world. There is enough enthusiasm to
> >> cause organizers to feature a special Linux Pavillion at next
> >> month's UniForum trade show ... how big is the NetBSD pavillion?
> >Linux also got an 18 months at least boost in the race to "market" from
> >the USL-CSRG lawsuit. That's a generation in Internet Time.
> .
> .
> .
> Are you writing that as advocate or historian, Peter?
Historian. I'm looking at *why* Linux has the software.
> I see plenty of evidence on the score of software avail-
> ability to favor Linux--although I've dropped my entire
> net worth into FreeBSD myself.
Absolutely. There's more software for Linux *because* it got that 18
month head start. Back in '93 and '94 there wasn't anything for either
of them.
--
The Reverend Peter da Silva, ULC, COQO, BOFH.
Har du kramat din varg, idag? `-_-'