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From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: 386bsd, linux: which runs more out of the box?
Date: 24 Mar 1993 03:53:44 -0500
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In article <1oovb4INN7kf@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
dthumim@athena.mit.edu (Daniel J Thumim) writes:
>
> I have been using a single linux partition with extfs, as root, for
> months, and since the 0.99 kernel it has been steady as a rock.

Would you care to trade machines, then?  Whether or not it works on
yours is irrelevant; I have different hardware, and I can assure you
that it is *not* stable on the machines I have.

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