From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Feb 6 02:50:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA16078 for chat-outgoing; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 02:50:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from diabolik.logic.it (diabolik.logic.it [195.120.151.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA16073 for ; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 02:50:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from molter@logic.it) Received: (qmail 2285 invoked from network); 6 Feb 1998 10:49:50 -0000 Received: from mc10.logic.it (HELO dumbwinter.logic.it) (195.120.151.110) by diabolik.logic.it with SMTP; 6 Feb 1998 10:49:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 630 invoked by uid 1000); 6 Feb 1998 10:38:37 -0000 Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 11:38:36 +0100 (MET) From: Marco Molteni To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files In-Reply-To: <19980206055944.59391@follo.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe chat" On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, Eivind Eklund wrote: > I believe one of the reasons for Linux' success is that external authors > get their changes integrated/reject more quickly. I'd like to share my Unix user experience. I started with HP-UX at the University (Computer Science Department). Since I don't live near my University, I searched a Unix I could use on my PC at home, and found Linux. Thanks to Linux, I fell in love with Unix. Then I heard of FreeBSD, tryed it, and fell in love with it ;-). I did my choose, and my choose was FreeBSD. I'd say I prefer FreeBSD for its "engineering"/cleaner/stabler approach. *But* I agree completely with Eivind. Now I hope the readers will _understand_ what I mean, I'm not looking for flame wars, since, as I said, I really like and admire FreeBSD, ok? For example, Linux has a lot more device drivers than FreeBSD. Probably many of them are not needed for "professional" use, eg a parallel port driver to an external tape. But I don't want to use FreeBSD on my production machines and Linux on my laptop to let me use my external tape. I want to use FreeBSD all the time ;-) Another example is RT-Linux, it's real-time extensions. I admit I don't know exactly the development status of RT-Linux vs the real-time FreeBSD, but I think RT-Linux is more usable right now. I understand (as Jordan probably will say ;-) that I'm just speaking about it, I'm not offering myself as a volunteer to do something, but I think mine is a pretty spread feeling about FreeBSD users. Ciao ciao Marco ------------- At COMDEX, Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving twenty-five dollar cars that got 1000 mi/gal." Recently, General Motors addressed this comment by releasing the statement "Yes, but what good would the car be if it crashed twice a day?"