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From: danaf@fox.cs.rpi.edu (Frank Dana)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: DEBATE: BSD vs. Linux
Date: 4 Sep 1995 05:12:28 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA
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In article <42ae6s$c6e@cnn.nas.nasa.gov>,
Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> wrote:
>
>Face it ... if you know one UNIX-like OS, you more or less know them all.
>I've used a zillion UNIX and UNIX-like variants, and, for the most part,
>they're pretty similar.
...Well, except for Solaris, which the "UNIX System Administration Handbook"
(buy this book!) describes as "wacky". I'm incined to agree. 8)
That's what makes the NetBSD/sun4m promise even nicer... with the demise
of SunOS and the imminent move to solaris at work, MAYBE I could convince
someone In Charge(tm) to go with NetBSD instead. Maybe.
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