From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 10 21:40:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA07820 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 10 May 1998 21:40:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA07793 for ; Sun, 10 May 1998 21:40:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA28410; Sun, 10 May 1998 23:40:06 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199805110440.XAA28410@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: A FAIR FreeBSD "vs." Linux Page. In-Reply-To: from Andrew Short at "May 10, 98 07:24:40 pm" To: Ashort@concentric.net (Andrew Short) Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 23:40:06 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Larry@disciples.com From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrew Short said: > > http://members.xoom.com/lwh/ > > My friend (who runs linux) and I are going to do this page that will > hopefully be a good and fair comparison of FreeBSD v. Linux for the > desktop. It is bare right now, but we both plan on changing that. > > It's not a contest, it's more of a survey. That's all. It will probably > even be BORING, but the info there will evolve as our experiences do. > I *encourage* fair comparisons. Comparisons obviously biased in either direction loose lots of credibility. I think that it is a challenge to be unbiased, and I wish you luck. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message