Hello Lawrence !

LG> While I certainly don't mean to malign any Linux code or
LG> programmers, it is new, relatively speaking, and sometimes
LG> it takes several years before some of the more obscure issues
LG> with a product come around to see the light of day.

Interesting what Ken Thompson, grandfather of *nix has to say about
Linux' code quality: some of it he likes and some not so much.

LG> Where they differ is in areas such as:

LG>   a. Installation methods
LG>   b. Customer support
LG>   c. Price, packaging, sales channels, and delivery methods.

For the newbie, I think, FreeBSD's port/package -system is a huge
advantage. Much nicer than .rpm or .deb! I haven't played with
Gentoo yet though.

LG> The fundamental different between NetBSD and the others, is that
LG> NetBSD's "headquarters" is in Canada, and thus was able to avoid
LG> ALL of the U.S. imposed export restrictions on cryptography.

Wasn't that OpenBSD?

Besten Gruss,
 Clemens

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