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From: kpn@thunder.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin P. Neal)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: HELP: installing netbsd+64mb RAM+adaptec
Date: 16 Nov 1994 00:46:29 GMT
Organization: North Carolina State University
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Larry McVoy (lm@fubar) wrote:
: This is why many, many people have backed away from *BSD.  It is most
: unfortunate because in many cases (i.e., networking) the *BSD code is
: better than the Linux code.  

Exactly how is the BSD networking code better than the Linux code? I'm
curious.

Where did the linux code come from, anyway?
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