From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Oct 30 17:26:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA27631 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 17:26:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA27625 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 17:26:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt2-222.HiWAAY.net [208.147.148.222]) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.7/8.8.6) with ESMTP id TAA19529 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 19:26:43 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.7/8.8.4) with ESMTP id TAA29775 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 19:26:40 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199710310126.TAA29775@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: dkelly@hiwaay.net Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Turning PCs into Workstations In-reply-to: Message from Chuck Robey of "Thu, 30 Oct 1997 16:45:05 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 19:26:40 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.