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From: Eric Blood <eblood@cs.unr.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD <->Linux - The Answer Found!!
Date: 24 Sep 1995 18:41:47 GMT
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drig@earth.execpc.com (David Rudder) wrote:
>Hi,
>	I'm a Linux user, primarily, installing FreeBSD for the first 
>time.  So, I read the Newsgroups.  Seems like there are a lot of people 
>asking which is better.  I had the same questions.  I've found the only 
>answer to this question.  Install both.  You see, you actually learn 
>which is better (for you), and you learn two intentionally different 
>Un*x's, and you also get to use that funky bootloader :)

I lot of people tell me "Linux is better" when I tell them I'm running
FreeBSD.  However, when I ask if they have ever run FreeBSD, they say
"no."  I have run both and prefer FreeBSD over Linux for many reasons.

My two cents...

Eric Blood
eblood@cs.unr.edu