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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!europa.clark.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-dc-5.sprintlink.net!news.socketis.net!pug1.SprocketShop.com!not-for-mail From: kturvey@pug1.SprocketShop.com (Kenneth P. Turvey) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc Date: 20 Mar 1997 08:52:30 GMT Organization: Home or elsewhere Lines: 72 Message-ID: <5gqtse$2am@news.sockets.net> 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: www.sprocketshop.com X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:165303 comp.os.linux.advocacy:89125 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2848 Mark Menard (mark@www.netgoth.com) 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. I was running NetBSD previously. I honestly think NetBSD is more mature. The operating system seems more complete.. Unfortunately the NetBSD team has problems with GPLed software and I prefer it. I think the FSF does a great job and I want to use the applications they develop. I built a number of them under NetBSD. Sometimes it went quickly and sometimes it was a disaster.. I finally decided to give Linux a try, again, after having problems building expect. All of the utilities I want to use are easy to build under Linux or come with one of the distributions. Too bad about NetBSD.. I really did like it. I was concerned that Linux wouldn't be as stable. I haven't been disappointed yet. : : Linux has served me well for almost five years. I'll bet FreeBSD would : : have done just as well. : : I would agree with this. I have since bought "The Complete FreeBSD" and : installed it. I like it. It runs very well, under my load I really can't : tell much difference between the two. Although I will say that I like the : heritage and history that BSD carries. Then again the newness and the : energy of the Linux community are exciting. (6 of one, half a dozen of the : other. :)) I liked the heritage too.. It kind of makes you feel warm inside :-) : : : Let us not waste a minute on "the circular firing squad" when the real : : enemy is The Dark Side of the Force, in Redmond. And getting darker all the time it seems... I spend quite a bit of time working on the dos side of things (Not my machine) and I always feel like I have to check to see if my wallet is still in my pocket when I get near them. Micro$oft always seems to want more for less... It must be great to be a virtual monopoly. When is someone going to break them up? : : Total agreement. Time spent sniping across the Linux/BSD front is time : wasted. They are both good, they both work. Their different, and that's : good too. It makes the world go round. : -- Kenneth P. Turvey <kturvey@pug1.SprocketShop.com> Finger my account for PGP key info. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own. -- Thomas Jefferson