From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 10 18:31:39 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA02991 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 18:31:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA02981 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 18:31:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from mips.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id DAA15772 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 03:31:33 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de) Received: by mips.rhein-neckar.de id m10Ajek-000WyhC (Debian Smail-3.2.0.101 1997-Dec-17 #2); Thu, 11 Feb 1999 01:06:58 +0100 (CET) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: Linus on IRC Date: 11 Feb 1999 01:06:55 +0100 Message-ID: <79t6uv$1kq$1@mips.rhein-neckar.de> References: <19990210110744.28561.rocketmail@send102.yahoomail.com> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Tommy Hallgren wrote: > Linus attended to an IRC chat recently, you can find the log at: It was some kind of "web chat" rather than IRC. Also, if you read the log, you'll find a statement to the effect that they had Linus on the phone and somebody else was typing his part. > I actually think that [the free distributions of > BSD] have been going away instead of actually making a comeback. And I > think they were interesting projects. Yes. Among BSD people there is a lot of casual Linux bashing, usually devoid of technical justification. Snide remarks against Linux have become fashionable on the freebsd mailing lists. You don't see much of this in other direction. To Linux people, BSD is mostly a non-issue. It's invisible, who runs it anyway?, they're hopelessly split up. That's what you are likely to hear. And this attitude starts from the top down, see Linus' comment above, see ESR's remarks, and a few months ago I witnessed Maddog Hall giving a similar response when asked about his opinions on BSD. And the large numbers of Linux users at the bottom pick it up. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de carpe librum: books 'n' reviews To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message