From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Mar 26 7: 5:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from jaguar.ir.miami.edu (jaguar.ir.miami.edu [129.171.32.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40F831506E for ; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 07:05:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcus@miami.edu) Received: from jaguar.ir.miami.edu ("port 3596"@jaguar.ir.miami.edu [129.171.32.10]) by jaguar.ir.miami.edu (PMDF V5.2-29 #30976) with ESMTP id <0F9700C2WJ8HUE@jaguar.ir.miami.edu> for advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 10:05:05 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 10:05:05 -0500 (EST) From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" Subject: Re: Swan song In-reply-to: <199903261351.FAA01397@implode.root.com> To: David Greenman Cc: bpechter@shell.monmouth.com, Brett Glass , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, David Greenman wrote: > >I hate to say this, but Linux has won for the time being. > >I'm considering a switch to NetBSD or Linux here at home because of > >a number of problems with the direction FreeBSD has taken with the 3.x > >and 4.x releases. > > What you please elaborate? What problems do you have with the direction > we're going? Personally, I like the way FreeBSD is going. They have a -stable, and a -current tree, they are committed to timely releases, bug fixes, new features keeping with industry releases, and user input on release schedules and feature deployment. I've actually converted three Linux users in the past week because of FreeBSD's improved stability, better software install model, and better driver support. > > -DG > > David Greenman > Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project Joe Clarke CSE Cisco Systems RTP > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message