<> > FreeBSD = Cathedral development <> > Linux = Bazaar development <> > <> > Read "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" by Eric Raymond to understand what <> > mean. Organized with scheduled releases and maintainers vs ad hoc team with frequent builds. is this what were talking about? Also Freebsd is linked to the BSD school of thought VS other more radical factions. From the playing I've done the differences are insignificant and either works assuming it supports the hardware. What's more significant is that linux has Attracted third party vendors producing products that run in that environment. <The analogy was only intended to indicate that DOS survived and CP/M <basically did not. To a point that is true but CP/M really didn't die. It mutated and DOS was the result. Also while dos was developing we had MPM, DRdos and CCP/M to name a few. To date DOS As far as I know does not have the CCPM multitasking. If there is an analogy CPM supported more different platforms than DOS. Allison