Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 19:45:04 -0400 (EDT) From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <marcus@miami.edu> To: FreeBSD User Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: The future (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.96.980407194400.22736A-100000@jaguar.ir.miami.edu>
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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" <marcus@jaguar.ir.miami.edu> 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
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