From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 10 19:38:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA20684 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 19:38:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail1.realtime.net (mail1.realtime.net [205.238.128.217]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA20671 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 19:38:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jktheowl@bga.com) Received: (qmail 10962 invoked from network); 11 Apr 1998 02:38:36 -0000 Received: from zoom.realtime.net (HELO zoom.bga.com) (root@205.238.128.40) by mail1.realtime.net with SMTP; 11 Apr 1998 02:38:36 -0000 Received: from barnowl.roost.net (apm7-217.realtime.net [204.96.0.217]) by zoom.bga.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA09501; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 21:38:34 -0500 Message-ID: <352ED90C.41C67EA6@bga.com> Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 21:45:49 -0500 From: John Kenagy Organization: sculpture X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: atc@npr.org CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: LinuxOS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Interesting, but there are other operating systems that are free and they have a history that goes back further than Linux. I use FreeBSD, a decendant of the Berkely Unix developed to run on big systems. It is powerful, stable, and has a more coherent development plan. It is fully supported by the development team and a list of volunteers on several mailing lists. If I were still in the computer business, it would be my choice. It is not a moving target like Linux' "committee" idea makes it. John Kenagy Austin, Texas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message