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From: miguel@sphinx.nuclecu.unam.mx (Miguel de Icaza)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux
Date: 17 Apr 1996 13:57:52 -0500
Organization: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
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> > Ok Nick, one question for you that I've been wanting to ask a Linux person
> > for a long time.  Why is that none of the major distribution sites for
> > Linux run Linux?  Here are the sites that I know of:
> 
> ftp.cs.helsinki.fi runs Linux. It is the Linux home ftp
> site for the Linux kernel stuff.

ftp.redhat.com runs linux.  

The home of a popular Linux distribution for the i386, Alpha and Sparc
ports.

Miguel