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From: atk@agua (Alan Krantz)
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Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux
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Date: 29 Mar 1994 07:28:10 GMT
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As I see it the major difference (from a user impact perspective) is that
FreeBSD has better network code and Linux has shared libraries. Give FreeBSD
shared libraries and I would probably pick it over Linux...

atk