New subject: Oh my goodness! I was an ORIGINAL LINC!!!!

4 Jan 1998

Well, if anyone wants it I can ship my FreeBSD 2.2.5 CD which I got a part
of a misorder.  Because I got it for free, I'll charge whatever shipping
costs.  Actually, I just am finishing installing my first Linux (Unix too!)
system on my 200MHz "Demon" (for Linux), but I need to contact the tech
support guies because they orginazied the CD so @%^# poorly.  It's Debian,
and the install was slicker than ANY other OS that I've installed, from
billg's DOS 2.0 to Windows 95.  Also, I feel like I've got the POWER
pre-installed, not something that you need to spend about 5 or 6 months
looking for.  Plus my Debian package came with browsers, server software
(Apache included, along with the Cern servers, NCSA servers, etc.), and
almost any X-Window look you can imagine, from the NeXT style to Mac to Win
95.  Well, if I ever get to an area of the planet with unlimited access time
measured in items smaller than tens of thousands of bucks for a modem, I
think that I'll see what I can do.
    Well, contact me if you want FreeBSD (anyone),

Tim D. Hotze
-----Original Message-----
From: Zane H. Healy &lt;healyzh(a)ix.netcom.com&gt;
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
&lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt;
Date: Monday, January 05, 1998 9:22 AM
Subject: Re: Linux???? is it real

...
  PS:  Sheesh the
FreeBSD people are always jumping around saying, "Can't
get Linux to work?  Try FreeBSD!"

Linux only has a few stable kernels and Slackware uses them. 
Heh, you know my answer for the BSD people, which BSD?  Let's see; FreeBSD,
OpenBSD, NetBSD, 386BSD, BSD/OS, BSD Lite, I don't know what else is there.
Personally I've got a Hard Drive with OPENSTEP, that's the only BSD system
I'm currently running.  At least Linux development is pretty much
controlled chaos, BSD on the other had seems to be to simply be chaos.
Yes, I know that there are quite a few different Linux distributions, but
they all run the same kernal and to a great extent the same software.

Linux has two types of kernals, production and development.  If you want
stable use production, if you want "Bleeding Edge" use development.  My
Linux fileserver has been running for over 15 months with the same software
install, without a crash.

Seriously the question you need to ask yourself when deciding which to use
is if you want a UNIX System V based system, or a BSD 4.3/4.4 based system.
If you want SysV go with Linux, if you want BSD then chose your poison,
personally I'd recommend FreeBSD for the Intel architecture, OpenBSD for
anything else.

Realistically the two are basically the same, on the topic of documentation
is about the only real difference.  You can find a ton of books specific to
Linux, as far as I know the only BSD 4.4 specific books are the Berkley
docs that Linux printed.

I find OpenBSD of intrest because it's purpose is to be multiplatform,
however, I think the total USENET traffic for it is less than
comp.os.linux.announce

I've got to agree with the comment that Linux is great for running
emulators.  I'm still looking for a PDP-11 of my own, but in the mean time
I can play with the PDP-11 emulator under Linux and run stuff like RT-11 or
Version 5 UNIX.

 Zane

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