From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 21 13:54:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA28736 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 21 May 1996 13:54:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA28729 for ; Tue, 21 May 1996 13:53:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA01994; Tue, 21 May 1996 13:48:48 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199605212048.NAA01994@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: BSD vs Linux To: branson@longstreet.larc.nasa.gov (Branson Matheson) Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 13:48:48 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199605211831.OAA23964@longstreet.larc.nasa.gov> from "Branson Matheson" at May 21, 96 02:31:23 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > (3)Will software for Linux run on BSD and vice versa? > > > > Yes and no, respectively (finally, a sequitur). This was a serious answer (to the only serious question of the 3). > Humorous answers aside ;-) would it not be a good thing to put a > comprehensive answer in the FAQ off of the web page? I think that it > will solve lots repeated questions like " Linux vs. FreeBSD " and " I > have blah foobar card.. will it run? ". The answer is subjective. Maybe we can make an interactive "pich a path aventure" using HTML links which will recommend a system based on user priorities. Sort of a budgo expert system. Don't be suprised when all of the answers come back "FreeBSD" from the FreeBSD veriosn of the system and "Linux" on the Linux version. > Mabey even a more direct route? We could always say, unconditionally, "Use FreeBSD". At the very least, there would be no question about where our potential bias lies. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.