From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Jul 16 12:57:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mail.nostrum.com (mail.nostrum.com [206.28.8.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7B1B156B3 for ; Fri, 16 Jul 1999 12:57:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pckizer@nostrum.com) Received: (from pckizer@localhost) by mail.nostrum.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id OAA12727; Fri, 16 Jul 1999 14:56:59 -0500 Message-Id: <199907161956.OAA12727@mail.nostrum.com> From: Philip Kizer To: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Linux on college radio show. In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 16 Jul 1999 12:15:29 EDT." Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 14:56:58 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [ CC list trimmed] Joseph Scott wrote: > As I'm sure many people will point out, the linux guy sure did >come down on FreeBSD pretty hard at times. Urgh...at times I was wanting to know if he had even tried using any of the *BSDs to back up his arguments. > To the interviewer's credit I think he did an excellent job of not >falling into an OS bashing mode. [ ... ] However I don't think he did, >as far as the interviewer is concerned I think it was a very fair >interview. I'll be sure to pass that on to Charles (the interviewer/my "team leader" :). Charles would have a hard time bashing any OS if his arguments weren't technically correct (he'd hear it from us); and, he knows how well FreeBSD is performing certain "mission critical" services for TAMU. > If anything it made the guy from VA Linux look bad because out of >the three people ( Linux, FreeBSD, and the interviewer ), the linux guy >was the only one who spent large amounts of timing bashing. ( Of course >NT bashing is open to all :-) Ya, well, that may be our view on it, but I know too many fans of certain OSs who's myopic view towards anything not ***** likely left them nodding along with various misinformation. -philip -- AKA: Philip Kizer Texas A&M CIS Operating Systems Group, Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message