From: James Rogers (jamesr@best.com)
Date: Sat Jul 12 1997 - 18:16:56 MDT
At 02:39 PM 7/12/97 -0700, Eric Watt Forste wrote:
>There are powerful, efficient, heavily tested, secure software
>systems that run on standard Wintel hardware and support probably
>the most advanced and powerful set of programming tools developed
>so far. There are several different versions, and the people who
>develop them not only want you to have them for free, they want
>you to share this software and your knowledge of it with your
>friends. (The people who develop this software generally make their
>livings supporting, customizing, and documenting the software, so
>you might have to buy a few books.) These systems rarely get
>mentioned in the commercial computer rags, because there is no
>incentive for the developers of these systems to buy advertising.
>Fortunately, almost everyone on this list should have access to
>the web by now, so without further ado:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/
> http://www.debian.org/
> http://www.linux.org/
> http://www.caldera.com/
> http://www.freebsd.org/
> http://www.netbsd.org/
> http://www.openbsd.org/
> http://www.linuxmall.com/
> http://www.redhat.com/
> http://www.cygnus.com/
> http://www.ora.com/
> http://ariel.cobite.com/abf/abf/linuxad.html
> http://www.fokus.gmd.de/linux/
It is interesting to note that Network Computing, Inc. (a.k.a. Oracle Corp)
has adopted the
NetBSD 1.2 kernel for their NCOS kernel.
-James Rogers
jamesr@best.com
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