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From: Brian Beattie <beattie@stt3.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD v Linux (again! ;)
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 08:02:42 -0700
Organization: Dynamics Research Corporation, Commercial Systems
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Jan Hurst wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a reasonable amount of experience running both Linux and BSDi but
> have never had much of a chance to try out Free or NetBSD.  Does anyone
> have any comments as to whether FreeBSD would be better than Linux when
> connecting to a BSDi system?  Are FreeBSD and BSDi very similar?
> 
> Any help would be appreciated...
> 
> Jan Hurst
> --
> jhurst@bekkers.com.au

FreeBSD and BSDi are extremely similar, they are both based on BSD4.4
Lite and have not had much time to diverge.

-- 
Brian Beattie                 +1.503.690.1570 x6116
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