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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
Date: 7 Feb 1997 17:30:40 GMT
Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI
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In article <E575K5.4yq@bigbird.telly.org>,
Evan Leibovitch <evan@bigbird.telly.org> wrote:
> WordPerfect, CorelDraw, ADABAS, ApplixWare, Wabi and Flagship have
> all been ported to Linux; How many are available for FreeBSD? Linux
> Journal is about to come out this month with its first Buyers' Guide;
> it'll be interesting to see just how much of what's inside is also
> obtainable in the FreeBSD world. There is enough enthusiasm to
> cause organizers to feature a special Linux Pavillion at next
> month's UniForum trade show ... how big is the NetBSD pavillion?

Linux also got an 18 months at least boost in the race to "market" from
the USL-CSRG lawsuit. That's a generation in Internet Time.

-- 

             The Reverend Peter da Silva, ULC, COQO, BOFH.

                  Har du kramat din varg, idag? `-_-'