From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Jan 27 18:36:01 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA22069 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 18:35:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason01.u.washington.edu (jason01.u.washington.edu [140.142.70.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA22051 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 18:35:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from durang@u.washington.edu) Received: from goodall2.u.washington.edu (durang@goodall2.u.washington.edu [140.142.12.168]) by jason01.u.washington.edu (8.9.1+UW98.09/8.9.1+UW98.09) with ESMTP id SAA24898; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 18:35:05 -0800 Received: from localhost (durang@localhost) by goodall2.u.washington.edu (8.9.1+UW98.09/8.9.1+UW98.09) with ESMTP id SAA43468; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 18:35:04 -0800 Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 18:35:04 -0800 (PST) From: "K. Marsh" To: "Dr. MacEnstein" cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The difference between two things (Was: statically/dynamically based software) In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990127210139.007bec10@mail.atl.bellsouth.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Dr. MacEnstein wrote: > I notice you left out the OS/2 option :-) Yes, for three reasons. First, if I used OS/2 as one of the two things to compare, then I'd have a lot of explaining to do. Comparing apples and pears is much easier than comparing apples and volkswagens. Secondly, people often seem to want to know the difference between Linux and FreeBSD, but not between a Freenix and OS/2. By choosing Linux and FreeBSD, I was improving my chances of giving the information that was requested. Third - I don't really know much of anything about OS/2, so I'm not likely to help by writing about it. Speaking of OS/2, however, I've not heard much about it lately. Is it growing, stable, or losing ground in terms of its user base? What's its strongest point short of having only Windows to compete with? Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message