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Date:      Thu, 17 Feb 2000 22:14:22 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Paul Robinson <wigstah@akitanet.co.uk>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        Jonathon McKitrick <j_mckitrick@usa.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: BSD vs Linux comments
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002172205410.51357-100000@elwood.akitanet.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20000217130241.T3509@fw.wintelcom.net>

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On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> I think your friends are mistaken, BSD isn't stagnating in 80s/early
> 90s technology, BSD got it right in the early 90s.  Linux is
> still playing catch-up and seemingly not doing a very good job at
> it.  It's 2000, which subsystem in Linux is going to need to be
> gutted and redone from scratch this month?

I think that's the crux of the argument really - it appears that BSD is
generally thought about and planned, and the people doing the coding
attempt to think about it before coding. Linux appears to be whatever was
covered in Dr. Dobb's last month, or what some 18-year old was taught in
his first-year 101 university lecture the semester before... not
particularly scientific...

At least linux got the *marketing* right... :)

-- 
Paul Robinson - Developer/Systems Administrator @ Akitanet Internet



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