From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 18 22:14:45 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id WAA04951 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 22:14:45 -0700 Received: from hutcs.cs.hut.fi (hutcs.cs.hut.fi [130.233.192.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id WAA04942 ; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 22:14:42 -0700 Received: from shadows.cs.hut.fi by hutcs.cs.hut.fi with SMTP id AA24097 (5.65c8/HUTCS-S 1.4); Wed, 19 Jul 1995 08:14:37 +0300 Received: (hsu@localhost) by shadows.cs.hut.fi (8.6.10/8.6.10) id IAA14160; Wed, 19 Jul 1995 08:14:40 +0300 Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 08:14:40 +0300 Message-Id: <199507190514.IAA14160@shadows.cs.hut.fi> From: Heikki Suonsivu To: Joshua Peck Macdonald Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: Joshua Peck Macdonald's message of 19 Jul 1995 02:16:25 +0300 Subject: Re: What people are doing with FBSD Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Otaniemi, Finland Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk classes as well as for a SLIP or PPP connection. The number I know using freebsd is about 5 I think, linux is probably closer to 100. I can't explain that one. I can. Linux people have got distributions; two hours and you got everything on disk, including TeX, emacs, doom and everything. There is no need to select between at least three different variants of BSD. Add unbeatable stability records when used in end-user workstations and lots of masses using Linux. There are other more subtle reasons, but those are far enough. We currently use about 15 PC's running FreeBSD as routers and servers, but the user workstations and personnel's home machines are Linux. The main reasons for using FreeBSD here is Linux networking code (sigh) and non-existant source management, and probably some history. FreeBSD gets hurt badly by unstability, not much change to "sell" FreeBSD to anyone as long as the longest uptimes are weeks. -- Heikki Suonsivu, T{ysikuu 10 C 83/02210 Espoo/FINLAND, hsu@cs.hut.fi home +358-0-8031121 work -4513377 fax -4555276 riippu SN