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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!chippy.visi.com!news-out.visi.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!nntp.portal.ca!cynic.portal.ca!not-for-mail From: cjs@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson) Newsgroups: misc.forsale.computers.workstation,alt.dec,biz.dec,biz.dec.workstations,comp.sys.dec,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc Subject: Re: FS: Dec Alphastation 500/500 Must sell Date: 1 May 1997 11:56:08 -0700 Organization: Internet Portal Services, Inc. Lines: 39 Message-ID: <5kap08$2dv@cynic.portal.ca> References: <5k6vui$7pd@news-rocq.inria.fr> <tepvvcosqg.fsf@grandteton.cs.uiuc.edu> <slrn5mg1st.e7i.djb@lacrosse.redhat.com> <33694567.7E3B@nedernet.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: cynic.portal.ca Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au misc.forsale.computers.workstation:35104 biz.dec:1196 biz.dec.workstations:312 comp.sys.dec:44582 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5878 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40119 comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc:71 In article <33694567.7E3B@nedernet.nl>, Pim van der Eijk <pvde@nedernet.nl> wrote: >As for OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, the same argument holds expect for the >fact that the user base of these systems seems (?) to be much smaller >than Linux's... I think there's no doubt about that. >, although I've heard some UNIX specialists in a company >I've worked for praise NetBSD over the commercial UNIX this company was >selling. I don't find this surprising. In my (obviously biased, since I'm a NetBSD developer) opinion, NetBSD is one of the best designed OSes out there. I don't, however, hesitate to point out that this may not mean much to you if you're not in the habit of poking around in the kernel source code. :-) >Also, I don't understand why there have to be three competing >*BSD projects, the Linux gang seems better at keeping proselytes and >dissidents involved in the main stream .. Uh...is that why there are at least nine different Linux distributions? (Keep in mind that the BSD sytems include a userland, so you have to compare each BSD with a Linux distribution, not just a Linux kernel.) I won't get into all the details of this argument here, since it's been gone through over and over again in the advocacy groups. But take my word for it, Linux has its own fragmentation and its own set of disadvantages. That doesn't prevent me from recommend it to some users, though. cjs -- Curt Sampson cjs@portal.ca Info at http://www.portal.ca/ Internet Portal Services, Inc. Through infinite myst, software reverberates Vancouver, BC (604) 257-9400 In code possess'd of invisible folly.