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From: mfrisch@rogerswave.ca (Mike Frisch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FBSD Future...
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 96 02:53:59 GMT
Organization: Rogers Cablesystems Ltd.
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In article <53kr8l$pkt@newsbr.eunet.fr>, fgm@osinet.fr (Frederic MARAND) wrote:
>I think this will probably diminish the needs of many FreeBSD/Linux
>users to get these OSes: only people really wishing to tinker with
>kernel code will stick to the really free OSes. Most people run them
>to get unix apps running, not for the sake of debugging kernels.

Why would anybody want to run SCO when it's so slow and clumsy?  
Besides, it's SVR4...

Mike.


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