From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 19 04:55:02 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id EAA17183 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 19 Apr 1995 04:55:02 -0700 Received: from redline.ru (root@mail.redline.ru [194.87.69.22]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id EAA17172 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 1995 04:54:46 -0700 Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 15:52:39 +0400 (GMT+0400) From: Anthony Graphics X-Sender: agl@mail.redline.ru To: Jeffrey Hsu cc: asami@cs.berkeley.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Case for FreeBSD presentation docs? In-Reply-To: <199504182132.OAA19525@freefall.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 18 Apr 1995, Jeffrey Hsu wrote: > Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 14:32:16 -0700 > From: Jeffrey Hsu > To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.org > Subject: Re: Case for FreeBSD presentation docs? > > Oh for heaven's sake. Just invoke NIH and wish Linux away. You are at > an academic institution after all. Seriously, just stress how good > the BSD source base is over some home-grown Minix kernel and non-BSD > TCP/IP. Making a case for BSD should not be hard, especially since I see no great things in BSD TCP/IP. It's nice to have _non BSD_ inplementation, because otherwise you can easily get trapped in some bug you can't fix just humble opinion of the mere user. AGL > many of these professors, scratch that, all of them, the old ones at > least, all used to run BSD on their VAXes and SunOS on their suns. >