From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 1 23:57:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from beorn.wizrealm.com (beorn.wizrealm.com [208.153.236.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3E6D1522C for ; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 23:57:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sfisher@twrol.com) Received: from twrol.com (nebula.twrol.com [208.153.236.250]) by beorn.wizrealm.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA24528; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 01:05:13 GMT Message-ID: <3754D5D9.3893A49@twrol.com> Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 00:57:29 -0600 From: Stephen Fisher X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Kalmadge Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bye-bye Windows References: <3754B3A9.F92C32D6@banet.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG James Kalmadge wrote: Thanks for the URL! Interesting =) > I don't know what the general feeling around here is, but I have read > many people's > letters outlining why FBSD beats Linux technically, etc. And therefore it > will eventually > be the OS of choice, &c, &c, &c . . . . > > It might be true. But Linux is winning the PR war (If there is one). The main difference I see is that Linux is for desktops. FreeBSD is for servers/high performance workstations, etc. Desktops are much more popular so Linux seems to be. Just look at Microsoft.. they have all of the PR down and are sitting on top of everyone else with it. > I remember hearing and reading about the obvious advantages of BETAMAX. > > What kind of VCR do you own? Good point... VHS.. :\ Steve Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message