Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 22:50:38 +0100 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Branson Matheson <branson@longstreet.larc.nasa.gov> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: BSD vs Linux Message-ID: <8507.832715438@palmer.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 21 May 1996 14:31:23 EDT." <199605211831.OAA23964@longstreet.larc.nasa.gov>
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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). 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) Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info
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