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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2151 comp.os.linux.misc:12037 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!lilo From: lilo@slip-2-70.ots.utexas.edu (lilo) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Date: 29 Mar 1994 23:04:07 GMT Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Lines: 14 Message-ID: <2nac57$r62@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> References: <CMzw69.92K@tower.nullnet.fi> <Cn1KJ1.9pr@boulder.parcplace.com> <HJSTEIN.94Mar24111940@sunset.huji.ac.il> <Cn6txK.IDp@boulder.parcplace.com> <2n1l3n$821@clarknet.clark.net> <2n26uu$ae6@fw.novatel.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: slip-2-70.ots.utexas.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] On 26 Mar 1994 20:46:22 GMT, Herb Peyerl (hpeyerl@sidney) wrote: > : way to talk to my modem -- kermit is not there, I can't get tip > : to work, and there's just not any instructions anywhere. Plus, when > *BSD is an operating system. kermit is an application. XFree86 is also > an application as is TeX and many other things. Should every conceivable > application be shipped with the operating system? Probably. If you want the novice to have a working system out of the box. Which is not necessarily a bad thing. :) lilo