From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Jul 14 17:58:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from shell.webmaster.com (mail.webmaster.com [209.133.28.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDA1814E90; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 17:58:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from davids@webmaster.com) Received: from whenever ([209.133.29.2]) by shell.webmaster.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-12345L500S10000V35) with SMTP id com; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 17:58:07 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" To: "Brett Glass" Cc: , Subject: RE: NT vs Linux vs FreeBSD Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 17:58:07 -0700 Message-ID: <000001bece5d$1a099ab0$021d85d1@youwant.to> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19990714182909.045589a0@localhost> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Regardless, two FreeBSD-3.2 machines running different 'distributions' are probably going to be a lot more alike than two Linux-2.0.36 machines running different distributions. My belief is that this is both a good thing and a bad thing. This is simply another area where Linux and FreeBSD differ. Each operating system's respective adovcates will be happy to sing the praises of their operating system's respective choices and complain about other operating system's choices. David Schwartz Check your NTP server: http://www.gpsclock.com/check.html > FreeBSD isn't a "one-distribution" OS. To say so would be to gloss over > the difference between the distributions that are available, and also > to suggest that the OS was so unpopular as not to be worthy of multiple > distributions. [SNIP] > Exactly. Just as Red Hat, Caldera, etc. have different distributions of > Linux that contain the same Linux kernel, there are different > distributions > of FreeBSD with the same versions of the kernel, etc. > > --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message