From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Mar 17 13:38:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D27F637B793; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 13:38:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (Foolstrustidentd@obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA07642; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 14:38:31 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <38D2A60E.C001525A@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 14:39:26 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 21st Century Unix References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kris Kennaway wrote: > > This article gives an (I thought) very balanced evaluation of the > strengths and weaknesses of various UNIX brands including FreeBSD: > > http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/issue/0,4537,2457573,00.html > > Comments, anyone? Already done so - I put in the blast about feeping creaturism in the Linux API set, and have been roundly blasted for it by several Linux cretins who don't understand the different between libc and syscalls. How is it that neither of us posted this to DDN? -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message