Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 19:26:40 -0600 From: dkelly@hiwaay.net To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Turning PCs into Workstations Message-ID: <199710310126.TAA29775@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> of "Thu, 30 Oct 1997 16:45:05 EST." <Pine.BSF.3.96.971030163811.8213E-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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Chuck Robey writes: > > I'm going to show my personal prejudice here, so I am willing to get > laughed at for it. I picked FreeBSD originally because it cared (it > seemed to me) more about standards. That both from a point of not making > gratuitous changes just for grins, and because of the traceability of the > BSD software. That seems to be at least ONE selling point, and it's one > that most other free OSs can't compete with. > > With that in mind, .... "Staying Standard with FreeBSD" huh? Getting there. I think the FreeBSD strong points are (not in any particular order) * Tradition. It does what the Unix books say. It runs the way you expect. * Reliability. Probably largely due to the traceability of its source code tree and revisions using automated tools (CVS). As a side note, we got a good laugh at work today, and a whole new respect for FreeBSD. Had never tried Netscape and Afterdark on an 8MB 486/66 before. Swap swap swap swap. But it worked. And was usable if you didn't mind waiting for code to swap in every time you pulled down a menu. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.
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