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From: bl03@uwrf.edu (BENJAMIN A LINDSTROM)
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,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: 16 Dec 1995 21:15:23 GMT
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Giao Nguyen (grail@cray-ymp.acm.stuorg.vt.edu) wrote:
: Christopher B. Browne (cbbrown@io.org) wrote:
: 
: : The *feel* of FreeBSD is a little more "professional;" I'm not sure I 
: : can readily explain that.  I'm not sure it's really worth anything,
: : either.
: 
: Well, there is this matter of FreeBSD being a *real* UNIX where Linux is
: not. 
: 
Without starting another flame war..but has someone PAID to have FreeBSD
approved as a *REAL* unix?  If not then it's in the same boat as Linux.=)