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From: wicks@timlerj.indy.tce.com (Spanky Wicks)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
Date: 9 Mar 1997 21:29:03 GMT
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In article <5f577p$99m@lynx.dac.neu.edu>,
mkagalen@lynx.dac.neu.edu (Michael Kagalenko) writes:
[.. lot's of stuff deleted ..]
>
> There's nothing like ignorant knee-jerk OS advocate. (M$ seem the
> worst, yet others are only very marginally better)
>
> Floating point and integer operations hardly
> depend solely on hardware. Speed of memory and disk access, things
> like swapping and so on all play a role. Mr.Felawka, before acting
> all haughty you would do well to learn a hing or two, otherwise
> you risk making a fool of yourself.
Uh, I just wanted to point out that "Speed of memory" and "disk
access" are 100% hardware. So, my Kagalenko, although your assertion
may be true, you'd look a lot less stupid if you gave examples supporting
your point.
BTW, I really REALLY don't understand why there is currently a
flamewar between BSD and LINUX, if anything the two camps to cooperate.
I started on BSD, and I now work on LINUX and both are great. I realize
that philosophies differ slightly but why a war?
Both are excellent implementations of Unix and both are very stable.
If you don't believe it run the crashme program on some commercial platforms
then try them on BSD and LINUX.
My school used BSD and DejaNews uses LINUX, both have high loads
and both are stable. Work on killing NT, hell I worked for a company
that went BANKRUPT using that piece of shit.
My 2 cents although I bet it's hopeless. :P
-Rich