Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 10:38:45 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mark Mayo <mark@vmunix.com>, kris@airnet.net, David Shanes <dshanes@personalogic.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" Message-ID: <19980411103845.40439@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19980410150331.16376@vmunix.com>; from Mark Mayo on Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 03:03:31PM -0400 References: <007501bd64a4$85095f40$1d43a8c0@shanes.personalogic.com> <352E61A7.570D84C@ninbox.ml.org> <19980410150331.16376@vmunix.com>
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On Fri, 10 April 1998 at 15:03:31 -0400, Mark Mayo wrote: > On Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 01:15:03PM -0500, Kris Kirby wrote: > For those interested, the arguments that worked best for me (note that > this is for getting CS departments to embrace FreeBSD) : > > 1. Pedigree. History. FreeBSD is the product of the CSRG at Berkeley. > Its roots are in academia, and we should be continuing that tradition. > > 2. Documentation. The Design and Implementation of 4.4BSD book. The ORA > BSD document set (PSD, USD, etc.). The literally hundreds of USENIX > and IEEE research papers presented on BSD related design, etc.. > Superior man pages for system calls. It's hard for a pedagogically > oriented prof to argue when you slap about 5000 pages of BSD docs > on his desk and demand that he produce the same for Linux. > > 3. Technical issues. NFS was written on BSD. The Athena project. Departments > all over the world have used BSD in the past because is was designed > with their labs, classrooms, and so on in mind. NFS in Linux sucks the > willy. You're going to have problems with NFS and Linux in a large > environment like a typical CS department. Fill in the blank here, we all > know umpteen reasons why FreeBSD outperforms, outshines, or outwhatvers > Linux. Wait for Linux labs to break, and rub it in their face. As > mentioned previously, nice guys finish last in marketig - without > exception. I'm surprised that you haven't mentioned the biggest buzzword associated with BSD: the Internet. Most of these other terms are things that only techies have heard of. *Everybody* has heard of the Internet, which is more than you can say of Linux. Look at the title of this thread. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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