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From: Ketil Z Malde <ketil@imr.no>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
Date: 06 Feb 1997 03:49:29 -0500
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tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon) writes:

> and HP/UX emulation, and OSF/1 emulation, although those last two
> admittedly don't work quite as well as they ought to.
:	:
> Yes, that's the rub, isn't it?  Things generally don't get integrated
> into BSD releases until they *work*

Except for a couple of emulations?  Perhaps BSD is bug free, and has
always been so.  I find that hard to believe, there has certainly been
bugs abound in Linux, but in general, production releases are stable.

> -- things seem to get integrated into L1NU>< as quickly as possible so
> as to allow a maximum of chest-beating by the k00l L1NU>< |)00|)Z.

Of course, some of us that can read don't confuse developer releases
with production releases.  If you have a problem understanding the
difference, I can try and explain it in small, simple words.

> Oh, believe me, I think Linux warrants a colon.  A bull colon, to be
> precise.
:	:
> And actually I wish the Foaming Linux Morons would stop
> spurting this kind of garbage all over the comp.unix.bsd newsgroups,
> but... well, what I said up above about typical Linux user behaviour
> and chest-thumping, I guess.

Yeah, that's really a rotten thing to do, isn't it?  Throwing around
inflammatory garbage about one particular OS in another OS's
newsgroups.  Don't you hate people who do that?  I'm sure you agree that
``Morons'', even with a capital M, is too nice a name for those people. 

You know, I really think you're quite amusing on your little crusade,
and at least _I_ should be grateful, since people are occasionally
complaining that Linux advocates are ..ah.. overenthusiastic, and that
the BSD advocates are more well thought out and considerate.

Now I've got a counterexample.

Have a nice day!

~kzm
-- 
If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants