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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!info.ucla.edu!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Questions about Linux vs. FreeBSD... Date: 14 Dec 1995 06:34:27 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4aoghj$32s@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <4ajc07$sb7@unix2.glink.net.hk> <4alnqo$1hi@clarknet.clark.net> <4am5uq$r24@agate.berkeley.edu> <slrn4cugl9.69q.ylee@manila.cc.columbia.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.admin:35959 alt.os.linux:6358 alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions:5069 comp.os.linux.advocacy:30237 comp.os.linux.misc:75454 comp.os.linux.setup:32179 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10390 In article <slrn4cugl9.69q.ylee@manila.cc.columbia.edu>, Yeechang Lee <ylee@columbia.edu> wrote: >David Clausen <clau@clark.net> wrote: >|I had to make this decision about 2 months ago when it came time for >|me to build an Internet firewalling gateway. I was won over by Linux >|because of the fact that it supports kernel-level packet filtering; > >Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@violet.berkeley.edu> wrote: >|Then you made your decision on wholly erroneous grounds, I'm afraid. > >Here we go again . . . Pardon me? Correcting technical inaccuracy is an entirely different matter from religion. I hardly see it as fair or proper that I should be denied a chance to defend FreeBSD from incorrect assumptions. Let's keep things in perspective here, folks! We just finished a religious war, true, but that's no reason to see monsters under every bed. Jordan