From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Dec 23 07:24:53 1995 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA14261 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 23 Dec 1995 07:24:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from shell.monmouth.com (pechter@shell.monmouth.com [205.164.220.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA14245 for ; Sat, 23 Dec 1995 07:24:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (from pechter@localhost) by shell.monmouth.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA06307; Sat, 23 Dec 1995 10:23:23 -0500 From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter Message-Id: <199512231523.KAA06307@shell.monmouth.com> Subject: Re: *BSD users subscription count To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Sat, 23 Dec 1995 10:23:22 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-chat@freefall.FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199512230851.JAA22148@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Dec 23, 95 09:51:04 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > As Bill/Carolyn Pechter wrote: > > > > Her machine runs Linux, OS/2 and Novell Dos. My hacking box (386sx25) > > runs either Linux (started with 99.10), FreeBSD (started with 1.02) > > or NetBSD (started with 0.8). > > > > I am not a BSD bigot. I prefer System V init and multiple run states. > > I think Linux and the two BSDs are excellent Unix systems (which are > > as solid as SunOS or HP-UX). > > Well, so you are the ideal ones to finally make a fair comparision > between both systems. (Not in Usenet, but perhaps as an article for a > magazine?) I'd love to -- but unfortunately they're moving targets. What you say today is out of date by the time the magazine gets published. Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Pechter/Carolyn Pechter | The postmaster always pings twice. Lakewood MicroSystems | 17 Meredith Drive, 908-389-3592 | Tinton Falls, NJ 07724 pechter@shell.monmouth.com |