From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Feb 13 18:47:52 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA06779 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 13 Feb 1999 18:47:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA06768 for ; Sat, 13 Feb 1999 18:47:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA22884; Sat, 13 Feb 1999 15:45:26 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd022864; Sat Feb 13 15:45:23 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA00182; Sat, 13 Feb 1999 15:45:14 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199902132245.PAA00182@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Linus on IRC To: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 22:45:11 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <7a2i48$md2$1@mips.rhein-neckar.de> from "Christian Weisgerber" at Feb 13, 99 01:48:08 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Like it or not, Linux is the Unix market leader. Pull the other one. Solaris has 5000 times as many applications as Linux. Linux is the Apple of the UNIX market. > Linux isn't technically bad. Yes, it is, from a commercial standpoint. So is BSD. Both of them have interfaces that change far too frequently to be worthwhile porting all the software that exists to them. You write something for DOS or Windows, and it continues to run forever. Same for Solaris, save for the foot-shot of the switch to SVR4, which was necessary because BSD couldn't do SMP. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message