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From: rob@eats.com (Rob Newberry)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 1994 19:53:39 UNDEFINED
Organization: Education and Technology Solutions
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>>To be honest, it's hard for me to have any sympathy for you; here you have
>>two FREE operating systems to choose from, with FULL source, and when something
>>doesn't work all you can do is whine about it. Why don't you try fixing some
>>of these problems yourself? What, you don't know how? Then learn. If you
>>want your hand held, then get a commercial operating system.
>I fully agree. Both OS's are excellent. I use Linux because at the
>time I made my decision, none of the BSD variants had dynamically
>linked libraries, and now I've got too much invested to switch for
>what would be minor advantages and disadvantages to me.
Thanks, both of you, for the lecture. As I said from the beginning, I have no
bone to pick with *BSD. I simply said, that for users like me, Slackware was
a much better choice. Your thoughtless comments about spending time
learning how to do things I CAN ALREADY DO WITH SLACKWARE only prove that fact.
Rob
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