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From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Subject: PLEASE (was Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux)
In-Reply-To: ziniuwei@acsu.buffalo.edu (Ziniu "Michael" Wei)
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Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 10:14:59 GMT
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ZW> I'm sick of this thread.  Why we Unix users always viciously attack
ZW> each other?  Why we need more spilt, from sysV/BSD, to UI/OSF and now
ZW> Linux/*BSD?  This will only drive people to DOS/Windows/NT/Chicago
ZW> no matter how funky we think they are.

Right. Wouldn't it be much better if all this energy that goes int this
"discussion" would be used to set up a FAQ about the differences between
Linux and BSD. Something like an overview: NetBSD supports this that Linux
doesn't support, Linux supports this etc. Without flames.
-- 
Piet* van Oostrum, Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University,
Padualaan 14, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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