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From: js@ibbs.av.org (Jeff Stillinger)
Subject: Re: It had to happen: "Linux for Dummies"
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Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1995 18:26:47 GMT
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James Raynard (james@parody.tecc.co.uk) wrote:
: In article <4atkoe$s8r@news.voicenet.com>,
: Johnny Firewall <Johnny Firewall> wrote:
: >
: >yup, it's coming. already being printed.

: Oh dear. Prepare for an avalanche of cross-posts to c.o.l.a saying 
: "FreeBSD is obviously a load of rubbish. I went into the local gun
: shop and I didn't see any FreeBSD books but they had one on Linux. 
: Then I went to have my hair cut and it was full of copies of Linux 
: for Dummies. This proves that there are 30,000 Linux users for every 
: FreeBSD user." 8-(

: (No offence intended to any gun owners or hairdressers, they were just 
: the first two unlikely places that occurred to me).

: James
: -- 
: Segmentation fault (core dumped): cannot find file '.signature'

This proves that 30,000 dumies can at least read.  At least there is 
something to read.

I bow in reverance to the guru's.

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