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From: token@cip.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Matthias Buelow)
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?)
Date: 19 Mar 1997 04:02:09 GMT
Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany
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In article <moooseE79KnF.LLI@netcom.com>,
Fred Kilner <mooose@netcom.com> wrote:

>would always be asking for money and there would be lots of
>garbage between the xwindows and it would be hard to find 
>place on the screen to park a window. I'm sure i'd get tired of
>the tie-die x-windows background real fast but i guess i could

Err, your words confuse me a little, but fbsd uses XFree86, like
Linux too, so it's the same environment...

>change that. Aren't all the commands in esperanto? I think
>there are a-lot of legitimate fears about using BSD. I don't
>think I could get used to locking directories to keep my programs
>from getting ripped off.

Sorry, I don't get it.  What exactly do you mean with those 4 lines?
What's "locking directories to keep my programs from getting ripped
off"?  UFS permissions?

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