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From: imp@village.org (Warner Losh)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD philosophy (was Linux Killer App (ksmbfs))
Date: 7 Oct 1995 09:41:09 -0600
Organization: The Village
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Message-ID: <45672l$5cu@rover.village.org>
References: <44cma4$fv4@hole.sdsu.edu> <44pgcj$ap@park.uvsc.edu> <MkQTQ2_00YUpQMKnpe@andrew.cmu.edu> <4524du$7kq@eplet.mira.net.au>
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In article <4524du$7kq@eplet.mira.net.au>,
Graham Menhennitt <gfm@werple.net.au> wrote:
>For many people who run FreeBSD on a home computer, even
>the Unix login is probably unnecessary.

I assume this means that you are talking about FreeBSD not connected
to a network?

On my FreeBSD box at home, I have two X terminals hung off of it, so I
kinda need login.  I'm also on the internet, so I really really really
need it :-)

Warner
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