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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: PLEASE (was Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux)
Date: 19 Apr 94 16:48:47 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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In <CoI4Gz.FLo@cs.ruu.nl> piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) writes:
>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.
Excellent idea. Then when someone asks another flamewar starting
question, we can just say "go read the FAQ". :-)
Any volunteers?
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Michael L. VanLoon Iowa State University Computation Center
michaelv@iastate.edu Project Vincent Systems Staff
Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free Un*x for PC/Mac/Amiga/etc.
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