Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 18:52:00 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@dayna.com> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OS for the People Message-ID: <344E9FB0.5C4E37F1@dayna.com>
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This is the text of the email I sent to the LAN Times editor: > Thank you for this excellent article informing people of the > high-quality alternatives to expensive and crash-prone commercial > operating systems offerings. > > The authors coverage of systems derived from BSD was rather > limited. While an excellent product, BSD/OS from BSDi is > certainly not the only currently available BSD system, and > perhaps not even the most widely distributed. > > FreeBSD is the premier BSD-derived system for the standard > "PC" architecture. It is fast and robuts, has a large number > of applications available in binary installation kit form, > and is available for free via ftp download, or at a small > price on CD-ROM from Walnut Creek CDROM. For details, see: > > http://freebsd.org/ > > The NetBSD development team has focused on platform portability > as their primary goal. NetBSD is currently available on a > number of computing platforms, including the PC, both PowerPC > and M68K based Macintoshes, Sun SPARC systems, and others. > For details, see: > > http://www.netbsd.org/ > > OpenBSD is focused on systematically discovering and fixing > all security holes in the BSD operating system. OpenBSD is > closely related to FreeBSD and NetBSD, but usually follows > somewhat in device driver support, due to the extensive > checking performed on code before being included in the OpenBSD > system. For details, see: > > http://www.openbsd.org/ > > Each of the above systems provides a fast, stable platform for > all computing tasks, from running internet and web services > to desktop productivity applications. They all excell in net- > working and software development facilities, and all use the > XFree86 distrubition of the X Window System to provide network > GUI support. > > I hope you can provide an update to this excellent article to > expose your readership to the wide array of choices available > to them. This, after all, is what UNIX has always meant to > users: choice. Thank you for your time. -- Wes Peters It was a diamond as big as the Ritz Software Engineer What you gonna do with this, tell me Dayna Communications Who's gonna save you When you're a slave to A diamond as big as the Ritz
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