From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jul 14 2:12:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ftf.dk (mail.ftf.net [129.142.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0350153D6 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 02:11:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from regnauld@ftf.net) Received: from ns.int.ftf.net (fw2.ftf.dk [192.168.1.2] (may be forged)) by mail.ftf.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3/gw-ftf-1.2) with ESMTP id LAA23148; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 11:10:49 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: mail.ftf.dk: Host fw2.ftf.dk [192.168.1.2] (may be forged) claimed to be ns.int.ftf.net Received: (from regnauld@localhost) by ns.int.ftf.net (8.9.2/8.9.3) id LAA20040; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 11:24:59 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19990714112458.54837@ns.int.ftf.net> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 11:24:58 +0200 From: Phil Regnauld To: Brett Glass , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NT vs Linux vs FreeBSD References: <199907030108.VAA24907@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> <4.2.0.58.19990713151423.0447bc20@localhost> <378BC133.65CD6266@softweyr.com> <4.2.0.58.19990713223011.044ee920@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19990713223011.044ee920@localhost>; from Brett Glass on Tue, Jul 13, 1999 at 10:31:54PM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386 Organization: FTFnet Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [trimmed Cc:] Brett Glass writes: > >Sure. They're another company that sells THE FreeBSD distribution on CD-ROM. > > Wrong. Their distribution is one CD-ROM. Walnut Creek's is four. It's a part of the FreeBSD dist. -- but as far as "FreeBSD, the source tree" is concerned: - it's the same bits & sources - noone reaaranged them in any way (like, "Gee, I prefer libc6 instead of libc5" or "let's recompile everything with -mpentium", and "/var/mail sucks -- let's put everything in /var/spool/mail"). > >So does Pacific HiTech in Japan. Did you have a point to make? > > Yes, but clearly it was too subtle for some folks to catch. It was so subtle I'm still looking for it. > >Welcome back, Brett. > > To what? That was a subtle point. -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message