From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Feb 17 14: 7: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from elwood.akitanet.co.uk (elwood.akitanet.co.uk [212.1.130.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CFE837B830 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 14:07:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wigstah@akitanet.co.uk) Received: from elwood.akitanet.co.uk (elwood.akitanet.co.uk [212.1.130.149]) by elwood.akitanet.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA55766; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 22:14:22 GMT Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 22:14:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Paul Robinson To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Jonathon McKitrick , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD vs Linux comments In-Reply-To: <20000217130241.T3509@fw.wintelcom.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > I think your friends are mistaken, BSD isn't stagnating in 80s/early > 90s technology, BSD got it right in the early 90s. Linux is > still playing catch-up and seemingly not doing a very good job at > it. It's 2000, which subsystem in Linux is going to need to be > gutted and redone from scratch this month? I think that's the crux of the argument really - it appears that BSD is generally thought about and planned, and the people doing the coding attempt to think about it before coding. Linux appears to be whatever was covered in Dr. Dobb's last month, or what some 18-year old was taught in his first-year 101 university lecture the semester before... not particularly scientific... At least linux got the *marketing* right... :) -- Paul Robinson - Developer/Systems Administrator @ Akitanet Internet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message