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From: mark@www.netgoth.com (Mark Menard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
Date: 20 Mar 1997 00:13:28 GMT
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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?
Me.
: 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. :))
: Let us not waste a minute on "the circular firing squad" when the real
: enemy is The Dark Side of the Force, in Redmond.
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.
Mark Menard
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