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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!knews.uk0.vbc.net!vbcnet-gb!azure.xara.net!xara.net!news.thenet.net!uunet!in3.uu.net!198.6.9.51!TIS_NEWS!news.iquest.net!not-for-mail From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Is there a BSD for me? Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 09:04:58 -0500 Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine Lines: 24 Message-ID: <33450A8A.167EB0E7@freebsd.org> References: <334499cf.10431258@agate> NNTP-Posting-Host: dyson.iquest.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.misc:2945 Trey wrote: > > Ok, I dunno how many newsgroups I've posted with this (or a similar) > question. But here it goes again. I just got a crusty RS/6000 > w/25mhz RISC from about 1991 or so. It's running some old version of > AIX (2.1.something I think) and I'm looking to upgrade. I run FreeBSD > right now on my other systems so I figure another BSD derivative is > good for me. Is there a system for me? > It'd be nice to do a port for FreeBSD :-). If not, then you might want to talk to the NetBSD or OpenBSD crews. > > By the way, do you know that FreeBSD is very much unliked in Berkeley? > The Linux users, I think, have turned into some sort of cancer. > Sad... Linux is a really good kernel. In fact, advocacy (with honesty), won't cause many negative responses from any of the various Linux or *BSD communities. It is the negative feelings and narrow viewpoints that cause problems interpersonally or in the newsgroups. John