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From: Dan Calle <dan@vt.edu>
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Subject: Re: Questions about Linux vs. FreeBSD...
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 06:19:39 -0500
Organization: Computer Science, Virginia Tech
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Mark Vojkovich wrote:
> 
>     Both are better, faster, and more stable than any MicroSoft
> product.  Run whatever you friends are running.
> 
> Please kill this thread.

I am utterly and completely amazed.  Someone asked, with no specifics, which
OS is better, and we didn't get a religious war - only a couple of people
said much pro or con, most people recommended (on their own) trying them
both out.  Wow.

And we still got a huge thread in a short time.  Sigh.  :-)

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Dan Calle           Senior, Computer Science and Mathematics, Virginia Tech
                                        Assistant Administrator: acm.vt.edu
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