From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 27 5:38:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lozen.uit.no (lozen.uit.no [129.242.5.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6110737B417 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 05:38:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from joseph.cc.uit.no (joseph.cc.uit.no [129.242.6.242]) by lozen.uit.no (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id g1RDck600982; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 14:38:46 +0100 (MET) Received: from duke.cc.uit.no ([129.242.6.120]) by joseph.cc.uit.no (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id g1RDcig07994; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 14:38:44 +0100 (MET) Received: from duke.cc.uit.no (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by duke.cc.uit.no (8.11.6/8.11.2) with ESMTP id g1RDchp63140; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 14:38:43 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200202271338.g1RDchp63140@duke.cc.uit.no> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: bsd@nuug.no Cc: johann@broadpark.no, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Borge.Brunes@cc.uit.no Subject: Re: Presentation of UNIX to an ignorant crowd In-Reply-To: Message from Kent Stewart of "Mon, 25 Feb 2002 14:18:27 PST." <3C7AB833.5060600@owt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 14:38:43 +0100 From: Borge Brunes Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG kstewart@owt.com said: > I think you are ignoring the fact that FreeBSD works really well as a > workstation. You also have code control of the entire system, which > Linux does not have. You get a kernel here and mods there and end up > with a patched system. FreeBSD is a solution and stands alone. It > depends on Linux because many of the ports come from there. I agree. Take a look at the article "Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior" regards, -- Borge Brunes, Computer Center, University of Tromso, Norway http://www.cc.uit.no/~borge/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message