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From: rafetmad@cheshire.oxy.edu (David Giller)
Subject: Re: Summary of Linux vs. 386BSD vs. Commercial Unixes
Message-ID: <1993Apr18.210819.6955@cheshire.oxy.edu>
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041
References: <1993Apr15.225354.18654@samba.oit.unc.edu>
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1993 21:08:19 GMT
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Oh, Jesus, here we go again.

Look, folks, regardless of the merits of a side-by-side comparison of
operating systems (I personally think they are a Good Thing), it has
been PROVEN time and again that it is IMPOSSIBLE to do this
impartially over USENET.  Some little fact is wrong or presented in
such a way that some acolyte of one OS faith becomes mortally
offended, etc. etc.

About this time, I think there needs to be two new newsgroups:
alt.os.linux.comparison.with.386bsd and
alt.os.386bsd.comparison.with.linux.  Then the people who CARE to hear
the senseless dribble that comes of this can go and leave the rest of
us alone.

-- 
David Giller, Box 134 | Q: How many Oregonians does it take to screw in a light
Occidental College    | bulb?  A: Three.  One to replace the bulb, and two to
1600 Campus Road      | fend off all the Californians trying to share the
Los Angeles, CA 90041 | experience. ---------------------------rafetmad@oxy.edu