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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:169 comp.os.386bsd.misc:691 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!library.ucla.edu!news.mic.ucla.edu!unixg.ubc.ca!acs.ucalgary.ca!cpsc.ucalgary.ca!xenlink!fsa.ca!news From: hpeyerl@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Herb Peyerl) Subject: Re: Why would I want LINUX? Message-ID: <1993Aug16.135818.17474@fsa.ca> Sender: news@fsa.ca Nntp-Posting-Host: newt.fsa.ca Organization: Little Lizard City References: <55270001@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM> <24gnu4$skm@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <24m779$b0h@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1993 13:58:18 GMT Lines: 23 In article <24m779$b0h@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US> earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US (Greg Earle) writes: [ A bunch of a people saying <blah blah blah> deleted. ] >thought of it!" Meanwhile, there's the fact that there are more than 7 times >the number of postings to the Linux groups than to the 386BSD/NetBSD groups: > >isolar:2:40 % ls -R1 /var/spool/news/comp/os/386bsd | egrep '^[1-9]' | wc -l > 226 >isolar:2:41 % ls -R1 /var/spool/news/comp/os/linux | egrep '^[1-9]' | wc -l > 1593 Hmm... MacDonald's sells more hamburgers world-wide than any other chain. Does this make them the *best* hamburger? Maybe you ought to talk to Jesus about his formal Logic course.... -- hpeyerl@novatel.cuc.ab.ca (actual but UUCP) | NovAtel Commnications Ltd. hpeyerl@fsa.ca <faster> | <nothing I say matters anyway> "valloc,malloc, & chmod, founders of the first users' group, arrive at their meeting place and are surprised by 'slattach', the dreaded barbarian hacker"