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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!sgigate.sgi.com!wetware!wsrcc.com!news.orst.edu!news.uidaho.edu!usenet From: "Faried Nawaz" <fn@uidaho.edu> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Date: 04 Dec 1995 19:59:16 -0800 Organization: People's Front Against WWW Lines: 11 Sender: nawaz921@waldrog.cs.uidaho.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <imwx8c17qj.fsf@waldrog.cs.uidaho.edu> References: <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> <49o2n2$t4e@daffy.anetsrvcs.uwrf.edu> <49osrd$ptg@times.tfs.com> <49pb5g$di8@agate.berkeley.edu> <49s93l$a6@dyson.iquest.net> <49t2qm$dl7@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> Reply-To: fn@uidaho.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: waldrog.cs.uidaho.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: September Gnus v0.15 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:30077 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10291 comp.unix.advocacy:12090 comp.unix.misc:20043 In article <49t2qm$dl7@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> Patrick Yaner <p_yaner@eos.ncsu.edu> writes: $ From what I can tell of all these messages posted here, it seems Linux is $ an OS for those who want to get their hands dirty in the maintenance and $ performance of their computer, and FreeBSD (likely -- but again I have $ absolutely no idea of what the facts are -- started with similar $ intentions) has been around longer, and is thus a bit more stable in $ terms of development, distribution, and availability. "Yeah, right. Don't go running you're mouth like that when you don't know all the facts..."