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From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@indy.celebration.net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 12:33:57 -0800
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James Youngman wrote:
> 
> In article <32F73973.167EB0E7@freebsd.org>, dyson@freebsd.org says...
> 
> >The only reason for a FreeBSD emulator that I know of is if someone would
> >*for some reason* downgrade to Linux.
> 
> Such contentious phraseology is not useful to anybody.  All it will do is start
> a flame war.  That doesn't sound like fun to me.
> 
Perhaps, I was a little overly enthusiastic :-).  There are reasons to
change from FreeBSD to Linux, I am sure though.

John