[GNUz] why bsd? - grounder piece

[Richard Tindall]

"11. Lot of Unix flavors, Microsoft and other Operating Systems. A 
newbie does a google on unix open source and sees a page full of Linux 
keywords. What is the best way to encourage newbies to use and consider 
FreeBSD in favor of others? How would you advocate this?"

"I always stress the importance of the academic environment that BSD 
came from and the fact that it has nearly 30 years of history behind it. 
You simply cannot get that wealth of engineering knowledge from Linux. 
Several of the original key players in BSD from the 70's and 80's still 
participate actively in FreeBSD development, and again there simply is 
no substitute that in other projects. In my personal opinion, FreeBSD 
really is a great base for learning the principles of computer science 
and engineering."

Scott Long - FreeBSD Release Engineer - 
http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?t=35212

+ For the user: simplicity (=speed), stability, securability (..?)

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Richard Tindall, InfoHelp Services <http://www.infohelp.co.nz> on:
Ubuntu GNU/Linux 5.04 free OS, 2.6.10-5-686 kernel, GNOME 2.10.0 desktop