Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 12:49:59 -0700 From: "Kory Hamzeh" <kory@avatar.com> To: "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Contributing to FreeBSD (was: userland firewall ?) Message-ID: <006401c1357a$c782b9c0$14ce21c7@avatar.com> In-Reply-To: <15252.28617.61423.224978@guru.mired.org>
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> > 2. Not meaning to start a Linux vs. FreeBSD war, but why is the Linux > > install base growing so much faster than FreeBSD, when in my > opinion (and > > many others I have spoken to), FreeBSD seems to be a faster, > more stable OS? > > I'd cite two causes, but others will certainly disagree. First, the > AT&T lawsuit that could potentially have prevented BSD from becoming > an open source system, which slowed the initial acceptance of > BSD. Second, that Linux has many different distributions, meaning that > you can probably find one that is exactly what you want (I even found > one that looked like a Unix system). In particular, there are lots of > distributions that install a system that to me feels like Windows. > That makes it a popular option on the desktop, which influences the > choice on the server. > > <mike > -- > Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> I must admit, though, that Linux is a little bit easier (friendlier) to install for the non-unix hackers. That may have a lot do to with it. Maybe we, the FBSD community, can learn a little from that. Kory To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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