From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 7 16:46:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA21352 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 16:46:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jaguar.ir.miami.edu (jaguar.ir.miami.edu [129.171.32.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA21232 for ; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 16:45:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcus@miami.edu) Received: from localhost by jaguar.ir.miami.edu (PMDF V5.1-10 #24029) with SMTP id <0ER200H01HZ4MK@jaguar.ir.miami.edu> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 19:45:04 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 19:45:04 -0400 (EDT) From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" Subject: The future (fwd) To: FreeBSD User Questions List Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The following is a letter I just sent to Marc Andreessen of Netscape regarding FreeBSD. Joe Clarke ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 19:43:55 -0400 (EDT) From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" To: marca@netscape.com Subject: The future Mr. Andreessen, As a network administrator for both Macs and UNIX, I find your decision to release the Mozilla source code a marvelous one. The developers of the world will finally get a chance to put their money where their mouth is. I feel that a rock-solid, dynamic, and superior product will come from this venture; and for that, I applaud you. However, your comments last week to a Linux developer group trouble me. For a few years now, I have been using FreeBSD, a free UN*X for the PC platform. I find it to be a great deal more stable than Linux, and a whole lot easier to setup and install. Linux is a patch-work operating system. There is not one single place or one single distribution. The only constant in Linux is the kernel. And, quite frankly, FreeBSD's kernel is better. FreeBSD is a true 4.4BSD-Lite derivative, and thus implements true AT&T UNIX code. It can be obtained from one single place, http://www.freebsd.org, and it is becoming so popular, that the developers of Apple's Rhapsody want to use some of its kernel code. If you are concerned about market share, I can assure you of FreeBSD's popularity. It is used by companies such as Yahoo!, the Internet Movie Database, Walnut Creek CD-ROM, Be (the makers of BeOS), and hundreds of other companies and organizations. Why is it used in so many high-end places? It is extremely stable and handles high loads very well. Its networking code is arguably faster than Linux's. If you are looking to make SuiteSpot available for a PC UNIX, then FreeBSD's BSD sockets, and vast developer documentation is perfect for you. I can speak not only for myself, but for a great deal of computer people at the University of Miami, that if Netscape focuses its developer interests on FreeBSD, you will have a great deal more customers. We here at the university are avid Netscape supports, but we do not support Linux. Thank you. I look forward to your response. Sincerely, Joe Clarke Apple Network Manager University of Miami http://jaguar.ir.miami.edu/~marcus/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message