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From: grante@hydro.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: FreeBSD vs. Linux
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Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1993 20:01:11 GMT
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Jim Pitts (pitts@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu) wrote:
: In the end they generally wind up wanting to do things that I do in
: FreeBSD that they can't do in Linux.
Could you give some examples? I just installed Linux a couple weeks
ago and got slip running last night. Before I invest too much time in
my Linux system, I would like to know what I would gain by switching
to BSD before such a switch becomes really traumatic.
Hey, they've both got X11R5, gcc, and emacs, so what do most of us
care one way or the other?
P.S. I really don't care whether a system is BSD or SysV based. I've
spent most of my Unix life on V7 and BSD systems, but I've spent
enough time with SysV that I'm happy with that as long as I've
got long file names.
However, if you try to make me run OpenSunWindowsNewsViews or
whatever the hell it's called, you'll end up prying my MIT X11
distribution tapes from my cold, dead fingers. ;)
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