Hi,

there are some advantages of linux beside the larger number of 
drivers nobody will deny:

support for MPS and an enormous amount of documentation 
(caused by the large number of users)

on the other hand there are also disadvantages of linux:

many sources (so called distributions) and to choose from these 
sources is as hard as to choose an OS itself, you need or at least 
should have in depth knowledge of the sources structures as you 
cannot expect anything to be at the same place on different 
sources, and therefore precompiled software may or may not run on 
your system.

mike

On 3 Jan 00, at 15:48, Mike Cheponis wrote:

> Well, I don't know about a list, and I'm not in the least interested in
> starting anybody flaming at all, but in my experience, linux has the most
> drivers for the latest h/w and it runs pretty reliably.
> 
> NetBSD seems ultra-reliable (actually, it's this feature that most draws me
> to this OS), carefully designed, and new features are thought out before
> going into a release.  Plus, of course, it runs on most every type of h/w
> known to man.
> 
> -Mike Cheponis
> 
> 
> On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Greg Scott wrote:
> 
> > Anyone know of where I can find a list of things that make NetBSD better
> > than say.. oh. Linux?
> > 
> > I need to convince a client that hype doesn't mean quality.
> > 
> > 
> > -Greg Scott
> >  LondonOnline.net
> > 
> > 
> > 
>