Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 21:01:16 -0600 From: Mike Allison <mallison@konnections.com> To: "dkelly@hiwaay.net" <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, "'Marc Slemko'" <marcs@znep.com> Cc: "chat@FreeBSD.ORG" <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Linux vs. the rest of the world, poor OS comparison on web p Message-ID: <01BCDCD2.24AB24D0@ip185-231.konnections.com>
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Marc: This is at once Linux' strength and weakness. If you need something there's always a good distro that highlights it. Unfortunately, you have to find it. That's the beauty and purpose of having the source. This is the same principle that built BSD, if you think about it.... -Mike ---------- From: Marc Slemko Sent: Sunday, October 19, 1997 5:48 PM To: dkelly@hiwaay.net Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux vs. the rest of the world, poor OS comparison on web p There is _VERY_ little bad you can say about Linux because it isn't an OS; a distribution is an OS, but Linux itself isn't really. If you say "Linux doesn't do bar", you get "oh, but distribution x which is in my basement and no one can use does". Along the same lines, all you have to do to say "Linux does foo, but you OS doesn't!" is show one Linux distribution somewhere that does it. Nothing necessarily bad about that, it just means "fair" comparisons are difficult and take a lot of effort because you have to itemize every major distribution.
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