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From: bl03@uwrf.edu (BENJAMIN A LINDSTROM)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit
Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD
Followup-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit
Date: 17 Nov 1995 21:25:01 GMT
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Kazimir Kylheku (c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca) wrote:
: In article <48gk8o$chc@pell.com>, Orc <orc@pell.com> wrote:
:  >In article <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu>,
:  >Jack Hou <hou@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
:  >>Hello,
:  >>
:  >>I am choosing between Linux and FreeBSD for my home PC.
:  >
:  >   Ask your technically knowledgable friends which they run.  Ask
:  >yourself who you'd rather ask for help when the machine doesn't
:  >work properly, then find out what she's running and use it.  FreeBSD
:  >and Linux are close enough to being the same thing so that you won't
:  >notice any difference 99% of the time.
: 
: I can't even believe that there are FreeBSD vs. Linux threads. Duh.
: 
: This is one of those rare times when I have to put purely UNIX postings
: into a kill filter.

It's good every once in a while to step back from your OS (or try as the
case maybe with some people =) and see what others support that you don't.
This thread could EASIABLE Linux vs Windows    or Linux vs Mac (note I
have seen a few of these. =).  No matter how much people don't want to
admit it.  We have to pull our heads out of the sand once in a while to
catch a new coming idea.