From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 13 8:33:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A1EA37B401 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 08:33:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net (sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.21.156]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39C1743E3B for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 08:33:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nkinkade@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net) Received: from sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net (freebsd.localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gADGXfwQ096230 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 08:33:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nkinkade@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net) Received: (from nkinkade@localhost) by sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id gADGXapk096229 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 08:33:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nkinkade) Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 08:33:36 -0800 From: Nathan Kinkade To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thanks guys Message-ID: <20021113163336.GG72253@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> Reply-To: nkinkade@dsl-only.net Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20021113055636.76357.qmail@web21305.mail.yahoo.com> <1037168694.263.3.camel@asa.gascom.net.ru> <000e01c28af3$35060c30$1baccecd@donatev49iknkl> <20021113104844.GA1869@raggedclown.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021113104844.GA1869@raggedclown.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 11:48:44AM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 01:01:08AM -0800, Grant Cooper wrote: > > There are so many different types of UNIX. If freeBSD is so great why won't > > natural selection begin and let some of these Unix flavors die? > > > > Really, wouldn't it be a better world if we had just a couple open source > > OS? > > > Why ? That's why it's Open-Source, it breaks the monopoly of closed > source. Ok, 20 flavours of Linux and at least 3 of *BSD; well...that's > -- > Regards > Cliff Sarginson > The Netherlands 20 flavours of Linux? A quick search at http://www.linux.org/dist/ with criteria "Any Language", "Any Category" and "Intel Compatible" returns 149 distros. Even moving the Caterory to "Mainstream/General Public" returns 56. Nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message