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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!gatech!smash.gatech.edu!not-for-mail From: gt6010a@asok.gt.ed.net (Jeremy Ouellette) Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Followup-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Date: 19 Mar 1997 07:48:00 GMT Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Lines: 26 Message-ID: <5go5ng$nul@smash.gatech.edu> References: <332c9a76.3278270@news.adelaide.on.net> <01bc32f2$3783f300$04000001@Colin> <E79F14.n7z@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de> <moooseE79KnF.LLI@netcom.com> <5gnog1$ip@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: r54h93.res.gatech.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:19265 comp.os.linux.misc:165587 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37469 Matthias Buelow (token@cip.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de) wrote: : 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? : : --token I think he was joking about Berkeley... Jeremy