Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 20:00:39 -0500 (CDT) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: John Kelly <jak@cetlink.net> Cc: Frank Pawlak <fpawlak@execpc.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD versus LINUX Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980501195523.24435c-100000@shell.futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <354b8c8c.300570838@mail.cetlink.net>
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On Fri, 1 May 1998, John Kelly wrote: > On Thu, 30 Apr 1998 22:30:41 -0500 (CDT), Frank Pawlak > <fpawlak@execpc.com> wrote: > > >In answering the question as I did, I was trying to provide some > >information to persons that were switching from Linux to FreeBSD and > >asking for information on the differences between them, and quite > >frankly were given bullshit for an answer. > > I don't think so. Take of poll of all ISP's running either of the > two, and I think you'll find that the vast majority prefer FreeBSD > instead of Linux. My statement stands. "Amateurs like Linux, but > professionals prefer FreeBSD." I, as I'm sure everyone is sick of hearing, have a page where I've compounded some of the more intelligent responses to this sort of question. Still failing in my eternal promise to make it pretty, and I was able to get exactly ZERO feedback from the various Linux hordes, but it's at: http://www.futuresouth.com/~fullermd/freebsd/bsdvlin.html One response I got from someone who saw the site I think sums it up even better than the 'Amateurs/Professionals' statement. It went something like thus: FreeBSD is a BSD UNIX that happens to run on x86 hardware. Linux is a x86 OS that happens to be vaguely POSIX-ish. Another that I saw somewhere was: FreeBSD looks like a bunch of BSD hackers got together and decided to write a PC OS. Linux looks like a bunch of DOS hackers got together and decided to write a PC UNIX, without ever having seen a real UNIX. My $0.02 and 2k of bandwidth for today. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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