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From: Joel Gallun <jgallun@cninc.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 15:31:55 -0500
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Mark Menard wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy Not my real address <mhall@homecom.com> wrote:
> 
> : My choice of Linux over FreeBSD was an accident: at the time I was giving
> : up on SCO I couldn't find any information about FreeBSD while alt.os.linux
> : was pretty busy.

Same here. I had tried SCO and abandoned it, tried a beta of BSD/OS
which
worked but didn't support the hardware I had and then ran across 0.94 of
linux.

> : Let us not waste a minute on "the circular firing squad" when the real
> : enemy is The Dark Side of the Force, in Redmond.

The question is: how can we spread this attitude, and all work together
for
the common good? All of us: the linux, *BSD, and commercial unix camps?

Joel