Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 18:34:10 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Phil Regnauld <regnauld@ftf.net>, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NT vs Linux vs FreeBSD Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.19990714182909.045589a0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <19990715010308.38726@ns.int.ftf.net> References: <378D11AD.A28551B@softweyr.com> <199907030108.VAA24907@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> <4.2.0.58.19990713151423.0447bc20@localhost> <4.2.0.58.19990713223011.044ee920@localhost> <4.2.0.58.19990714142755.04765a40@localhost> <378D11AD.A28551B@softweyr.com>
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At 01:03 AM 7/15/99 +0200, Phil Regnauld wrote: >Wes Peters writes: > > > > This is going nowhere, you're just disagreeing to disagree. As usual. > > Not really, in fact -- we have an expression for in Europe -- > we call it fly fucking. :-) In the US, we use a more polite term: "nit picking." But that's not what's going on here. FreeBSD isn't a "one-distribution" OS. To say so would be to gloss over the difference between the distributions that are available, and also to suggest that the OS was so unpopular as not to be worthy of multiple distributions. > What Brett is doing is pointing us at the dictionary definition > of distrbution: CheapBytes and WC may not be the same distribution, > because they were not distributed in the same way. Or even with the same applications and utilities. > Different distributions of the same version, then. Exactly. Just as Red Hat, Caldera, etc. have different distributions of Linux that contain the same Linux kernel, there are different distributions of FreeBSD with the same versions of the kernel, etc. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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