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From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: Suggestions on whole PC unix system
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In article <35g3d0$85h@news.doit.wisc.edu> porter@fozzie.chem.wisc.edu (Ron Porter) writes:
>: If you can find a copy, read the September 1994 issue of "Open Computing",
>: formerly "UnixWorld".  They compare Linux and BSD 4.4 from BSDI.  They
>: liked both systems but summed up with:
>Anyone know why this magazine would compare 1 freely available UNIX
>(Linux) to a comertial UNIX, and completely ignore other free UNIX's
>like FreeBSD and NetBSD???????

Probably poor research. The rest of the article was woefully inaccurate

Alan


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