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From: jlido@cray-ymp.acm.stuorg.vt.edu (Jon 'Mr. Outrageous' Lido)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: BSD vs. LINUX
Date: 12 Dec 1994 16:20:11 GMT
Organization: ACM Student Machine
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nelson@crynwr.crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) wrote:
>You goober! LINUX has brought DOOM to UN*X! What more could you
>possibly want?
So Doom is part of Linux now? Come on! Linux had nothing to do with
it. There's nothing special about Linux that makes Doom run on it,
except some guy at iD thought it would be cool to port it to his
Linux box. Besides, Linux isn't the only "UN*X" to run Doom.
>[ this, in addition to all the other, more serious and worthwhile
> additions to UN*X ]
Linux brings us the tri-weekly kernel patch! (You "tri" it
and your computer is broken for a week! :)
--
Jon-Erik Lido Crazy Person Extraordinare
jlido@vt.edu PGP public key available
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