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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!news.aimnet.com!netserv.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.zeitgeist.net!news.pixi.com!usenet From: rjh@pacinfo.net (R J Huntington) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD? Date: 2 Apr 1996 03:09:22 GMT Organization: Pacific Information Exchange Inc Lines: 15 Message-ID: <4jq5p2$1g2@rigel.pixi.com> References: <4jpq8b$tfv@lucy.swin.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: romulus.pixi.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:16528 comp.os.linux.misc:95790 In article <4jpq8b$tfv@lucy.swin.edu.au>, -=PsYcHlOpS=-@seinfeld.swin.edu.au propones... > >I'm fairly new to UNIX and would like to install >either FreeBSD or Linux. [...] I once told a client the question was similar to: "Which is better, Caddilacs or Lincolns?" "Oh," he said, "you mean they're both junk!" That wasn't really what I meant, but you'll get plenty of argument about it. Why not try them both and make up your own mind after reading the biased opinions of other users.