Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 17:49:38 -0400 From: Maury Markowitz <maury@OAAI.COM> To: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NT vs Linux vs FreeBSD Message-ID: <199907132143.RAA04275@OAAI.COM> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19990713151423.0447bc20@localhost>; from Brett Glass on Tue, Jul 13, 1999 at 03:14:57PM -0600
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> > >In addition to FreeBSD being rock solid, it has the right to claim that it > > >is a one distribution OS. Unlike linux which has several. That has both advantages and disadvantages though, depending on the context. Throughout the 80's having a single source was one of the favourite excuses for MIS to reject Macs. Later when they tried cloning a different group complained that it was all too confusing. C'est la vie. > You're confusing distribution, media and packaging, IMHO. Well I'd say that if you look at "BSD" rather than "FreeBSD" the forking is just as bad as it is on the Linux side of things. Forking is bad. There are now three generally similar BSD releases out there, and arguing which is better actually makes them all worse. Of course only a dreamer would suggest that some anti-forking is due for the BSD world. Somebody pinch me! Maury To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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