From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 22 04:19:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA19578 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 22 May 1996 04:19:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ime.net (ime.net [204.97.248.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA19573 for ; Wed, 22 May 1996 04:19:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buxton-6.ime.net (buxton-6.ime.net [206.231.149.15]) by ime.net (8.7.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id HAA15110 for ; Wed, 22 May 1996 07:18:49 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <31A2F83E.1205@mainelink.net> Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 07:19:26 -0400 From: Gary Chrysler Organization: The Computer Guy X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: BSD vs Linux References: <8507.832715438@palmer.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Gary Palmer wrote: > >> Branson Matheson wrote in message ID >> <199605211831.OAA23964@longstreet.larc.nasa.gov>: >> Humorous answers aside ;-) would it not be a good thing to put a >> comprehensive answer in the FAQ off of the web page? I think that it >> will solve lots repeated questions like " Linux vs. FreeBSD " and " I >> have blah foobar card.. will it run? ". >> >> Mabey even a more direct route? > > This was recently discussed on the freebsd-doc mailing list (should be > available in the archives ... my mail to the list was sent on friday > or saturday). Since the FAQ is an official document of the FreeBSD > Project, myself and others feel it would not be wise to make such > comparisons in an official publication of the Project. (If you look in > the archive, I gave detailed reasons, but basically is that if we make > such a comparison, someone, somewhere will take offense at it and > start slagging us off. There is no such thing as a fair, unbiased, > treatment of this area, which is often considered a nearly religous > issue, and treated with much fanatacism by some). > For what it's worth, I agree! > So basically, it won't hit OUR web pages, but I am not ruling out > putting a pointer to someone else comparisons, with a suitable note > that, being a 3rd party document, we cannot be held responsible or > accountable for the contents (type of thing. I'm tired at the minute > and can't think of the right way of phrasing this) That'ed work. Gary ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Improve America's Knowledge... Share yours The Borg... Where minds meet (207) 929-3848