by Richard Godbee, J » Wed, 20 Aug 1997 04:00:00
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by Michael Kozlows » Wed, 20 Aug 1997 04:00:00
They do. It doesn't have some of the extra stuff in it, though.Quote:>Windows 95 upgrade is twice on the list? The first time it's a CD
>version. And the second time it comes on what? I've never heard they
>sell it on floppies.
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by Nathan Han » Wed, 20 Aug 1997 04:00:00
> >dont worry we'll be getting there ... a year ago it was
> >nowhere, today it's 'only on par with DOS 6 upgrades', in
> >a year it will be selling 'only 10% better than NT 5.0'.
> >not that Linux hackers care much ;)
> Nor should they - they have invented the 2nd best OS around.
> ;-)
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by Tony Tribel » Wed, 20 Aug 1997 04:00:00
> > Complete Red Hat Linux, by Simon & Schuster, is a best seller.
> > Check it out at http://www.techweb.com/se/directlink.cgi?CRW19970818S0020
> Yeah!! 4th Place!!!
> Well It's in the Top 5!!???!!!
Tony
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by Richard Wic » Wed, 20 Aug 1997 04:00:00
>>: IOW, Linux is selling about as well as DOS 6 upgrades.
>>dont worry we'll be getting there ... a year ago it was
>>nowhere, today it's 'only on par with DOS 6 upgrades', in
>>a year it will be selling 'only 10% better than NT 5.0'.
>>not that Linux hackers care much ;)
> Nor should they - they have invented the 2nd best OS around.
> ;-)
> John Wiltshire
Actually from what I've seen (and I'll admit it's not too much)
FreeBSD and Linux seem to be about head to head, although I liked FreeBSD
very much when it was running on our Suns.
-Rich
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by Ragib Rafsanja » Thu, 21 Aug 1997 04:00:00
> >Windows 95 upgrade is twice on the list? The first time it's a CD
> >version. And the second time it comes on what? I've never heard they
> >sell it on floppies.
> They do. It doesn't have some of the extra stuff in it, though.
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by Richard Wic » Thu, 21 Aug 1997 04:00:00
>> Actually from what I've seen (and I'll admit it's not too much)
>>FreeBSD and Linux seem to be about head to head, although I liked FreeBSD
>>very much when it was running on our Suns.
> Perhaps you mean NetBSD or OpenBSD. FreeBSD on runs on PCs in the
> i386 family. NetBSD, on the other hand, runs on 17 platforms. (See
> http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/) OpenBSD does 11 platforms. (See
> http://www.openbsd.org/plat.html)
-Rich
by Sang K. Ch » Thu, 21 Aug 1997 04:00:00
:
: : IOW, Linux is selling about as well as DOS 6 upgrades.
:
: dont worry we'll be getting there ... a year ago it was
: nowhere, today it's 'only on par with DOS 6 upgrades',
Of course the other way to look at this is that DOS/OS/2 products have
dropped low enough that the DOS 6 upgrades are at the same level as
the Linux sales.. :-)
-- Sang.
by James Youngma » Fri, 22 Aug 1997 04:00:00
Richard> Ah, you caught me. It was a BSD variant of some sortQuote:>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Wicks <_sp> writes:
What it came down to is there were several reactions to the AT&T
vs. lawsuit against Berkeley.
Some people continued to use the encumbered code from 386BSD, slowly
replacing it, and some immediately threw it away and begain to rewrite
it. One of these is FreeBSD and the other is NetBSD, I can't
remember who did what. OpenBSD was a later split (ObMontyPython:
"splitters!") which was, I think, political. Full details are
available in the FreeBSD FAQ. See http://www.freebsd.org/.
With Linux different groups
Richard> produce different distributions but doesn't Berkeley
Richard> produce and control all the variants? Why do they have
Berkeley never _controlled_ them (see the BSD copyright for why).
In any case, the Berkeley CSRG has now been disbanded, I think.
4.4BSD was the last Berkeley release, I think.
Richard> FreeBSD, NetBSD, etc? What are the differences?
Even before the lawsuit there were many BSDs -- BSDI's BSD/386,
William Jolitz's 386BSD. NetBSD may have preexisted, plus there are
the other BSD-derivatives SunOS and HP-UX (kernel only, originally
4.2BSD). More details in the FAQ, see above.