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  From: Ben Kramer <ben@webmedia.com.au>
  To  : Mark Newton <newton@atdot.dotat.org>
  Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 13:20:20 +0000

Re: FreeBSD for Linux users - A talk?

Sounds like a great Idea,

I remember once before you have posted an email which stated that for
certain cases linux was better but in other cases FreeBSD was better (or
something along those lines). I would be interested to hear more.

Ben

Mark Newton wrote:
> 
> In one of the smaller conversations I had in the discussion bit following
> the last LinuxSA meeting, someone suggested the idea of a talk on the
> topic of FreeBSD.
> 
> Is this something that'd be likely to be suitable for a talk at an
> upcoming meeting, or would I be stoned to death as a heretic? :-)
> 
> FWIW, FreeBSD people aren't OS bigots (as I hope I've demonstrated over
> the years from my conduct on this list), and are actually more likely
> to recommend Linux than FreeBSD for many applications (especially the
> development of commercial software for free OS platforms).  It does
> have a number of (unfortunately) unique features which Linux users often
> aren't aware of;  it might be beneficial to free software in general
> if some of those features lose their uniqueness, such as the Ports
> Collection, CAM (ANSI) SCSI kernel APIs, time-tested TCP/IP support,
> and a bus-independent I/O system.
> 
> I could also talk about the differences between the way FreeBSD and
> Linux are developed, the role of the "core team" and CVS committers,
> and distributions.
> 
> Is there any interest in a discussion along those lines?
> 
>    - mark
> 
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