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From: shendrix@escape.widomaker.com (Shannon Hendrix)
Subject: Re: LINUX SUCKS!!!!
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In article <MICHAELV.94Oct28223159@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon) writes:

> From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon)
> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc
> Date: 29 Oct 1994 03:31:56 GMT
> Organization: HeadCandy Associates... Sweets for the lobes.
> 
> In article <1994Oct28.041604.589@escape.widomaker.com> shendrix@escape.widomaker.com (Shannon Hendrix) writes:
> 

>    If it does say BSD... it's not Linux!  And...
> 
> Your idiotic reply after you bit the the bait right off his hook.  But
> since you took the bait and spewed a bunch of absolute crap yourself,

Oh get off it.  It was little more than a parody of his own post, not
intended to be as serious as you took it.

> It will?  Do you have concrete examples to show me?  Or are you just
> pulling this out of your ass?

If you'd get your head out of yours you'd never have asked that question.

>    * it's file systems will be slower
> 
> Really, and what hard numbers do you have to prove this?  Or do you
> just blindly believe something someone you've never met told you,
> about something that doesn't even apply to the current state of
> NetBSD?

Bite me...  If I run two systems and watch one outrun the other I don't
need hard numbers.  I just pick the better one and you do the same for
yourself.  In my case Linux easily out-performced BSD.  That's an
absolute and I don't give a damn if you believe it or not.  Not slow
enough to keep me from using it but it was pretty obvious in just a few
minutes and completely obvious after about a week.  It's totally
non-important unless you are in an in-depth discussion about such
things, not a post like that.

>    * it will have less support
> 
> What is your quantitative basis for this assertion?  I'm sure you're
> prepared to post your list of the entire scope of "support" for both
> systems.

Again, more just directed toward the original poster.  I shouldn't
have replied, OK?  Or rather, I should have used Email.  And if you
must know, I really do find more support for Linux.  If you don't,
fine.  I am not forcing you to use Linux.  I also do not make my
decisions based on someone else's point of view because it doesn't
work that way.

>    * it will have you as a user
> 
> You're damn right it will.

And here you reply to obvious flame bait after berating me for replying
to obvious flame bait.  People in glass houses should not throw stones.

> My apologies to the sensible Linux users who were as offended by this
> moron's statements as all us *BSD'ers were by the bonehead who posted
> the original flame bait.

I'm willing to apologize for ever posting my reply but your reply is in
many ways far worse since you commit the very crimes you were bitching
about.

-- 
csh
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