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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.radio.cz!newsbastard.radio.cz!news.radio.cz!CESspool!hammer.uoregon.edu!news-xfer.netaxs.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!news1.best.com!nntp1.ba.best.com!nntp2.ba.best.com!dfox From: dfox@belvdere.vip.best.com (David E. Fox) Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Date: 4 Apr 1997 01:53:04 GMT Organization: Dave's Really K-rad Linux Box Lines: 33 Message-ID: <slrn5k7et0.9a7.dfox@belvdere.vip.best.com> References: <5hcbac$r22@news.gvsu.edu> <333cddd8.1017100@news.sprynet.com> Reply-To: dfox@belvdere.vip.best.com NNTP-Posting-Host: belvdere.vip.best.com X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.3.1 UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:19740 comp.os.linux.misc:167866 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38389 In article <333cddd8.1017100@news.sprynet.com>, Goatboy wrote: >>6. Free development tools come standard and are updated for free. > >I know. Like gcc. But dos has djgpp, which is the same thing, just >ported. But gcc will be on the same CD with every Linux distribution. Dos, or NT, users have to go out and find djgcc. If an NT port doesn't exist, you're stuck (but that, if not here yet, will soon be, I would think.) In addition, the last time I looked at djgcc (just before I switched over to 386BSD and later Linux in fall 1992) wasn't GPL. It had a rather restrictive license saying if you make any money, you owe the djgcc person some money. Lots of free (and shareware) software has been written for DOS, to be sure, but you have to go find it. If you get a distribution of Linux, you get a whole slew of tools and apps to go with the kernel. If you buy DOS (or Win95/NT) it's not very useful out of the box. >WinNT an 95 aren't at ms's mercy. And if u want to change the OS, you >can. What's there to stop you? You are if you depend on them. Case in point - if you want new fixes from MS for Win95, good luck getting them. The service packs are only going out to OEMs, which generally means you need to buy a new computer with the new version of the OS preinstalled. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Tax Thanks for letting me dfox@belvdere.vip.best.com the change magnetic patterns root@belvedere.sbay.org churches on your hard disk. -----------------------------------------------------------------------