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From: andreas@knobel.GUN.de (Andreas Klemm)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: To Merge or Not to Merge *BSD. What does it really mean?
Date: 15 Jan 1995 18:47:56 GMT
Organization: Solaris 2.4 research kitchen, D-41469 Neuss
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Alex Wetmore (alex@nine.org) wrote:
: You could say it is ashame that Linux and BSD aren't merged, but frankly
: I don't think I want a lot of the people who write code for Linux writing
: code for *BSD.

Same for making distributions ;-) 'though there are some interesting
distribs around there, but I prefer a stable basis, that is nicely
maintained and packaged with quality as final goal ...

BTW: I had sometimes problems installings packages, funny 777 permissions
and such after unpacking with pkg_add ... Is this a known behaviour
that is fixed now or... ?

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