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From: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.linux.development
Subject: Re: We a FAQ: Linux vs. *BSD!!!
Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.linux.development
Date: 15 Oct 1994 05:12:01 GMT
Organization: Walnut Creek CD-ROM
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In-reply-to: hughes@napa.eng.uop.edu's message of 14 Oct 1994 17:37:53 GMT

In article <37mflh$f6s@unix1.cc.uop.edu> hughes@napa.eng.uop.edu (Ken Hughes) writes:
   Normally I would agree, but in this case I doubt that ignoring the
   questions will stop them from being asked.  New people come into these

Read what I said more carefully, please.  I didn't propose to stop the
questions, I simply proposed to stop the answers.  The questions will
keep coming in, but will "quench" themselves far more quickly if
people simply ignore them.  We're always going to have this question,
there's no doubt, so the best we can do is try to minimize the amount
of damage it does.

   386BSD-1.0", so please don't start THAT thread again either).  IMHO, the
   only chance for resolving this issue would be for someone to sit down and
   compile a list of features that shows which OS has what and which doesn't.

I don't agree.  As you seem to concur, the FAQ will be out of date and
essentially useless far too rapidly to make the effort of writing it
anything but a wasted one.

						Jordan