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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!EU.net!chsun!news.eunet.ch!usenet From: Tim Tassonis <timtas@webshuttle.ch> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 02:28:20 +0100 Organization: EUnet AG Lines: 31 Message-ID: <333092B4.7DC23153@webshuttle.ch> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <slrn5fejrn.353.bet@onyx.interactive.net> <5d7spf$8n6@web.nmti.com> <5d9p55$t1h@news.ox.ac.uk> <5dadfr$cnu@web.nmti.com> <n4stf5.tq2.ln@zen> <E6sIEF.1qE@truffula.sj.ca.us> <5gpvf8$4h1$1@usenet.logical.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: dyna-wt-55.dial.eunet.ch Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; Linux 2.0.29 i486) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:165302 comp.os.linux.advocacy:89124 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2847 Mark Menard wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > In comp.os.linux.advocacy Not my real address <mhall@homecom.com> wrote: > > : My choice of Linux over FreeBSD was an accident: at the time I was giving > : up on SCO I couldn't find any information about FreeBSD while alt.os.linux > : was pretty busy. > > My choice was very similar. I was running a database on some MS Windows > stations that was falling apart. I needed a platform. I was in the book > store and there were books staring me in the face. A lot of them had > "Linux" on the spine, and they had CD's. I had heard of Linux and BSD, even > heard good things, but all there were at this book store was Linux books > and commercial UNIX. I took a gamble, bought a Linux book, took it home, > installed it and it worked. Been working ever since. If I'd found a bunch > of BSD books on the shelf I might be running BSD today. > > : How many advocates for one or the other will admit their choice was > : similarly arbitrary? > Mostly, but not completely. I chose (or stick to) Linux as well because it's one of the few software products at least partly from Europe, while any other systems is from America. Nothing against Americans, but their dominance in the software maket is just too big (not their fault though, but the European's). So my choice is as well based on the fact that Linux is more international. Tim