From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 6 14:58:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from guru.phone.net (guru.phone.net [209.157.82.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B5D1915012 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 14:58:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@phone.net) Received: (qmail 29135 invoked by uid 100); 6 Sep 1999 21:57:55 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 6 Sep 1999 21:57:55 -0000 Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 14:57:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Meyer To: "Chad R. Larson" Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Caldera? (fwd) In-Reply-To: <199909061920.MAA20430@freeway.dcfinc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Chad R. Larson wrote: :->This discussion broke out on another list. Did I miss any major :->points? Yes... :->> Well, :->> stability :->> security :->> non-fragmented (there's only one "distribution") :->> central control of distribution (not just the kernel) :->> better unification of vision of what said distribution is to be :->> unified "make", build entire system with single command :->> better performance on same hardware, especially TCP/IP stack :->> well over 2000 software package already ported :->> good package management :->> 12 years of development :->> to name a few. It runs commercial Linux applications. This makes FreeBSD a good choice for a Linux seat.