Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 11:20:44 -0500 From: Jerry Kendall <jerry@border.com> To: Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD or BSDI Message-ID: <96Mar6.113158est.20487-1@janus.border.com> In-Reply-To: <199603061609.RAA26372@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de>
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What was I saying?????? Well, There are a lot of users off FreeBSD on these lists. If some person needs help, he/she just askes for it and will get all the info they need... the is what I ment by the first statement. The second statement simply states that I use FreeBSD as my OS of choice.... Although I have used the other that were mentioned. That's all On Wed, 6 Mar 1996, Greg Lehey wrote: > > > On Tue, 5 Mar 1996, Amancio Hasty Jr. wrote: > > > >> I guess the dominating factor here is what does the systems programmer > >> feel most confortable or if he has any peers that are running the > >> same OS which he can benefit from their experiences. > > > > I may be overstating the obvious here..... How many people are on the > > hackers/questions mailing lists???? > > I'm not too sure I understand what you're saying here. If you're > saying "maybe we should take this off the hackers list", I suppose we > might find that's a good idea. For the moment, I'm assuming there's a > certain interest. > > > If that is'nt 'peers that are running the same OS which he can benefit > > from their experiences'. I don't know what is... > > > > I have tried BSDI(I work with it), NetBSD(I work with that too), > > FreeBSD(at home and I work with it), and have worked with others such as > > AIX, Solaris(Also have that at home), and SCO. Don't forget Coherent. > > > > Of all the above(including Linux, yuk! yuk!) I feel FreeBSD is the best > > for ME... I would NOT impose this upon others because their needs are most > > likely to be different than mine... > > I think that if your statement is to be of interest, you need to say > why. > > In my case, I have used most of the systems you mention. I (still > just barely) prefer BSD/OS, though I'm constantly revising my > viewpoint. 4 years ago, there wasn't a competition. 18 months ago, I > was astounded how good FreeBSD had become. Now I'm very impressed. I > think BSDI should be scared, but instead they're pricing themselves > out of our reaches. My reasons for BSDI: mainly stability and a more > rounded system. As I say, that's changing. > > I don't know nearly enough about NetBSD to venture an opinion, but > those of you who speak German should read Martin Cracauer's web pages > about his personal choice between FreeBSD and NetBSD. The URL is > http://www.leo.org/pub/comp/os/bsd/cracauer/. He speaks a few home > truths, a few out-of-datisms and a few personal opinions which I do > not share. He comes to the conclusion that he prefers NetBSD. Before > you go flaming him, read the article. It's well put. > > Greg > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Any comments or opinions in this message are my own and may or may not reflect the comments or opinions of my present or previous employers. Jerry Kendall Border Network Technologies Inc. System Software Engineer Tel +1-416-368-7157 ext 303 jerry@border.com Fax +1-416-368-7178
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