Subject: RE: NetBSD is not Linux
To: 'wojtek@wojtek.3miasto.net' <wojtek@wojtek.3miasto.net>
From: Stephane St Hilaire <ssthilaire@hyperchip.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 06/06/2001 16:32:10
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From: netbsd-users-owner@netbsd.org
[mailto:netbsd-users-owner@netbsd.org]On Behalf Of
wojtek@wojtek.3miasto.net
Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2001 10:07 AM
To: Thomas Mueller
Cc: netbsd-users@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: NetBSD is not Linux


>> 
>> I am new to NetBSD, downloaded for a preview onto a hard disk which
became
>> inaccessible (not sure if it's that particular hard disk that went bad).
I
>> notice Linux is far ahead of NetBSD for multiprocessor support, and Linux
got

>linux had multiprocessing long before netbsd. but how about it's quality?

Linux has pthreads too.


>> ELF long before NetBSD.  Linux has an anarchy of many distributions, some
(like
Linux has many distributions yes, what makes that an anarchy exactly ?


>> Red Hat) seeming to go out of their way to out-Windows MS-Windows with
their
> GUI.

>exactly. good there are people who see that.

I haven't used linux all that long but kde and gnome looked pretty much the
same on linux as they do on NetBSD. I might have missed something. 

Steph