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From: Lars Koeller <lkoeller@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de>
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In message <13FACFD14032@bldg1.croute.com>,
"Larry Dolinar" writes:

>>From:           Edward Ing <edward.ing@utoronto.ca>
>
>dennis wrote:
>> My question is why have two OS rather than one REALLY good one?
>>  Why dont programmers,hackers,develepors of both teams unite to write the
>> ultimite OS?
>>  Why the two teams mock at each other? Dont they see the danger in front of
>> them?
>
>I think you take the "mock" thing a bit seriously; however distasteful you 
>may find it, it's not confined to this corner of the net, or society.  It is 
>an extremely difficult thing to get many personalities involved in ANY kind 
>of development, much less Un*x.  That the FreeBSD team handle it as well as 
>they do is a tremendous credit to them.
>
>Apart from the other comments about the development approach, Linux is 
>SystemV-ish, FreeBSD BSD-ish.  These two approaches are not entirely 

Hmmmpf. Linux want's to be SystemV-ish, but it's more a hermaphrodite cause 
there are a lot of BSD is utilities on it. To be SystemV-ish is a bit more 
than to have this confusing init-file structure.

>compatible, ask anyone using Sun's products (we do, both kinds).
>
>Additionally, there is no such thing as the "ultimate OS" in my opinion.  We 
>use a lot of Novell and NT at my work, and the Internet flame war of those 
two (and their followers) is also somewhat reprehensible.  If anything, take 
>solace in the fact that progress continues to be made on many fronts.  
>Idealism is a wonderful thing, but some pragmatism must figure in as well.
>
>best regards,
>larry

Ciao

Lars

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