From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Sep 29 17:41:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA16752 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 17:41:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us (Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us [169.244.111.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA16735 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 17:41:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from netmonger@genesis.ispace.com) Received: from Celeris (56k-port4009.ime.net [209.90.195.19]) by Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us (8.9.1/8.8.8-Loki) with SMTP id UAA09689; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 20:40:44 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from netmonger@genesis.ispace.com) X-Server-ID: Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us, OCSNet - Orland Maine USA X-Coord-Name: Drew "Droobie" Baxter, OneNetwork Exchange X-Coord-Addr: Droobie@Openlink.orland.me.us X-Coord-Pager: USA: 207-471-2719, http://pagedroo.orland.me.us Message-Id: <4.1.0.67.19980929203532.00a40740@genesis.ispace.com> X-Sender: netmonger@genesis.ispace.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1.0.67 (Beta) Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 20:40:20 -0400 To: insane@oneinsane.net, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG From: Drew Baxter Subject: [Re: Microsoft worries over Linux] In-Reply-To: <19980929155855.C26848@oneinsane.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well here's some food for thought. First off, Linux has variations/flavors (they call them distributions, but you get the idea) on its own. That alone could make someone go "whoa, this is probably the better of them all". At the same time, you'd have to be pretty far off not to be able to install Linux.. Also the fact is, Red Hat is rather well off about publicizing their flavor. All in all, I don't like Linux because of who uses it, not because of the OS. Although I'm a seasoned (4+ years) user of FreeBSD, and Linux is well, different in some ways. Besides, you know as well as I "All the good hacking, nuking, and other fun denial of service stuff (for demonstration purposes, of course) comes from Linux. ". Unfortunately a lot of porting would have to be done to get most of it to work on FreeBSD too, I've traveled that road before. --- This Reflects the Opinions of OneEX, but not of any small gerbils in East Mississippi. Drew "Droobie" Baxter OneNetwork Exchange http://www.droo.orland.me.us At 03:58 PM 9/29/98 -0700, Ron 'The Insane One' Rosson wrote: >Once upon a time Georgiana S. Trigg shaped the electrons to say... >>would say that perhaps Linux's popularity is because of it's GUI, but then > >Linux is a GUI? Since when? The only GUI I've ever seen on Linux is X - >*if* I install it. > >I think Linux is popular because of the way it was developed, the history >it has. It is a product of the community, for the community. And Linus' >personality certainly has helped the popularity. > >And more and more vendors are jumping on the Linux bandwagon - while >BSD/OS, and especially FreeBSD, aren't getting the same kind of vendor >support. > >-- >------------------------------------------------------------------- >Ron Rosson ... and a UNIX user said ... >The InSaNe One rm -rf * >insane@oneinsane.net and all was null and void >------------------------------------------------------------------- >It's so nice to be insane, nobody asks you to explain. >[----------------------------System Info---------------------------] > 2:54PM up 19 days, 3:04, 4 users, load averages: 0.79, 0.88, 0.85 > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message