From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) Subject: Re: 386bsd, linux: which runs mo.. Date: 5 Apr 1993 18:23:39 -0400
In article <SCT.93Apr5173643@damsay.dcs.ed.ac.uk> sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk
(Stephen Tweedie) writes:
>
> You seem to be saying that you gave up on Linux ages ago because it
> was ridden with bugs. You seem unable to make any allowance that
> Linux may in fact have improved since you left it, [...]
I feel justified in this, because people were screaming about how
wonderful and reliable Linux was back when I started using it, right up
through when I quit (0.99.3), and it never worked reliably for me.
Everybody seemed content to simply say `must be your hardware'. Well,
my hardware works just fine to run 386BSD.
I make no attempt to say that 386BSD works for everyone; some people
want shared libraries, and the standard release doesn't include them.
It doesn't work on some hardware that Linux now works on (and, BTW,
vice versa). Overall, though, it has more of the features which I
want, and its native file system and networking code appear very
stable.
Admittedly, if I wanted to debug yet another system, I could make Linux
work, but that's not the point and I don't care. My only point is that
people need to understand that their hardware is not the only platform
in the entire world, and what works for them does not necessarily work
for everyone else.
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