From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 4 23:34:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA25447 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 23:34:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.crl.com (mail.crl.com [165.113.1.22]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA25432 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 23:34:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kanto.cc.jyu.fi by mail.crl.com with SMTP id AA09378 (5.65c/IDA-1.5 for ); Wed, 4 Sep 1996 23:33:07 -0700 Received: from localhost (kallio@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kanto.cc.jyu.fi (8.7.2/8.7.2) with SMTP id JAA17199; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 09:24:05 +0300 (EET DST) Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 09:24:04 +0300 (EET DST) From: Seppo Kallio To: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-hackers-digest@freebsd.org, Dennis Subject: Re: hackers-digest V1 #1436 In-Reply-To: <199609040312.UAA17647@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > From: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis) > Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 14:00:17 -0400 > Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux 96 (my impressions) > > >E-mail message from Dennis contained: > >> > >> You left out one big disadvantage. The Kernel implementation is a pile > >> of crap, and that different combinations of drivers will yield almost random > >> results in terms of reliability and stability. > >> > >> Just my impression. > > > >Shame that no one really cares about it. All the people want to see is that > >it's so easy for newcommers. Just like Windows. In more than one aspect :) How is Slackware so easy? Is there some difference. I think differences are very small. Here people use DOS h/w, not Apple hardware because ALL OTHER use DOS h/w, here people use Linux because ALL OTHERS use Linux. I think tehre is nothing bad if people select easy systems. I should select Macintosh if I could, but when all others are using DOS h/w it is stupid to be alone Seppo