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From: jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu (Joe Sloan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: BSD vs. LINUX
Date: 13 Dec 1994 19:23:45 GMT
Organization: University of Calfornia at Riverside
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References: <KSTAILEY.94Dec8195010@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> <3cikvv$2lq@mail.fwi.uva.nl> <3cip2g$1um@galaxy.ucr.edu> <3ckqoe$hgc@ivory.lm.com>
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In article <3ckqoe$hgc@ivory.lm.com>,
Peter Berger <peterb@telerama.lm.com> wrote:
>In article <3cip2g$1um@galaxy.ucr.edu>,
>Joe Sloan <jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu> wrote:
>>I don't think so. Your analogy would infer, sir, that linux is just a 
>>crippled variant of UNIX, some sort of watered-down "UNIX for beginers"...
>
>Actually, his analogy doesn't infer that at all.  It implies it.
OK, OK... point well taken...

>>The fact is, Linux is quickly becoming the Hackers's OS of choice.

>Oh.  I'll alert the media.
It seems that the secret is already out, but your willingness to help
is appreciated...

--
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