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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
Date: 27 Nov 1995 04:44:03 GMT
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Mad Max (poulosio@netcom.com) wrote:
: 
: Byron A Jeff (byron@cc.gatech.edu) wrote:
: 
: : Max you keep whining and bitching about the CDROM drive. If you're having
: 
: [rest of flame snipped]
: 
: Ben Franklin said it best, fuckhead:
: 
: "If it sounds too good to be true, it is"
: 
: CLUE: I did get one of my CD drives to be seen by Linux, but Slackware 
: ver.3 is also fucked. I have already realised that there is no technical 
: support for Linux.
: 
: Why we dissatisfied users seem so rare is simple: I'm the only one 
: willing to speak up, becuse you fuckheads are so happy to flame. This 
: flame was written on a CRIPPLED Linux box.
: 

<weak grin>  Sorry...I KNEW from past 2.x experience that 3.0 would be 
really fubared. =)
BTW, Linux != Slackware...Try 2.3 or RedHat 2.0 or Debian.

Or build your own.=) That is what people  told me in 2.1 days...=)
(of slackware)