From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Jul 26 10: 5:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F35B537B713 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 10:05:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.69.47]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA1D73; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 10:07:43 -0700 Message-ID: <397F19D8.2A9BBF66@acuson.com> Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 10:03:20 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rewted Cc: FREEBSD-NEWBIES@FREEBSD.org Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD article References: <000701bff72c$e7f3cec0$52bbe2d1@elite> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org rewted wrote: > > I found an interesting article > http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/%7Eengl109m/singhcomparison.html Parts of this are highly inaccurate and misleading. Linux is called democratic because users decide what get's in the kernel, while FreeBSD is called republican because it has a core team. If we takes these political analogies, then Linux is more like a dictatorship because only Linus decides what goes in the kernel. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message