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From: garcia@pc5.ece.cmu.edu (Brad Garcia)
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: 17 Dec 1995 14:55:23 GMT
Organization: Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Terry Lambert spewed forth:
|> It is idiotic to try to compare such fluid entities for the
|> benefit of fools who don't recognize the scope of fluidity
|> and thus ask dumb questions like "which is better?", which
|> can never be satisfactorily answered. If the fools think
|> that the question has been answered, and thus they "know which
|> is better", well, that simply proves that they are fools.
Gee, Terry, try to be more of an asshole next time, won't you?
If someone asks "which is better, MS Windows or Linux, do you say that
"Only a foolish idiot asks this question because Linux will soon come out
with kernel 1.4.x and the Windows 95 bug fix will be out real soon now?".
You provided a couple of nice points in your original post, and I think
this is exactly the kind of information people would like to know! So
what if it will change next month and start a flame war? I'd like to
have some idea of how the OS'es differ! Even if the information is due
to be outdated soon.
Maybe you're upset with people who have the mentallity of "Linux is best",
or "FreeBSD is best", but don't start to flame a legitimate question
because of it!
|> Now do you understand why no one is seriously attempting to
|> answer this critically stupid question?
The only stupid question is the unasked one.
Or the one asked without first reading a FAQ :^)
--
Brad M. Garcia ____/ _ _ / / /
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