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From: dleeds@MCS.COM (Daniel Leeds)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Usefulness of BSD/Linux Source Knowledge (was BSD vs. LINUX)
Date: 26 Jul 1994 16:02:08 -0500
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Shannon Hendrix (shendrix@escape.widomaker.com) wrote:

: Also, SunOS is no longer a port of BSD.  It's yet another version of
: SVR4.2 now, not BSD.  It's been that way since Solaris 2 was released
: and it is the future, like it or not.

SunOS != Solaris.  Wake up.  Too different products.  Solaris is what is 
shipped nowdays, exactly why I will *NOT* buy sparcs anymore.


: Because BSD is dead.  I wish it were not so because I prefer BSD but
: SVR4.2 is the future of UNIX, not BSD.  You actually made a wrong 
: choice by your own critieria.

Funny, I am running BSD right now.  My machine is functioning and pretty 
fucking good thank you.  As for development there is alot of BSD 
development going on right now, just not from Berkeley's commercial entity.

This whole BSD is dead shit just doesn't add up missy.


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