Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 14:56:58 -0500 From: Philip Kizer <pckizer@nostrum.com> To: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Linux on college radio show. Message-ID: <199907161956.OAA12727@mail.nostrum.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 16 Jul 1999 12:15:29 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907161210090.40409-100000@unix1.digital-web.net>
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[ CC list trimmed] Joseph Scott <joseph@randomnetworks.com> wrote: > As I'm sure many people will point out, the linux guy sure did >come down on FreeBSD pretty hard at times. Urgh...at times I was wanting to know if he had even tried using any of the *BSDs to back up his arguments. > To the interviewer's credit I think he did an excellent job of not >falling into an OS bashing mode. [ ... ] However I don't think he did, >as far as the interviewer is concerned I think it was a very fair >interview. I'll be sure to pass that on to Charles (the interviewer/my "team leader" :). Charles would have a hard time bashing any OS if his arguments weren't technically correct (he'd hear it from us); and, he knows how well FreeBSD is performing certain "mission critical" services for TAMU. > If anything it made the guy from VA Linux look bad because out of >the three people ( Linux, FreeBSD, and the interviewer ), the linux guy >was the only one who spent large amounts of timing bashing. ( Of course >NT bashing is open to all :-) Ya, well, that may be our view on it, but I know too many fans of certain OSs who's myopic view towards anything not ***** likely left them nodding along with various misinformation. -philip -- AKA: Philip Kizer <pckizer@tamu.edu> Texas A&M CIS Operating Systems Group, Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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