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From: drake@teleport.com (Joshua Drake)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: BSD vs. Linux
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Date: 13 Mar 1994 18:43:38 -0800
Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016
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Who would want to Linux on a MAC :( anyway....
Linux is by far the better for the wannabe unix hacker..
It takes less room and is quicker...
Chris G. Demetriou (cgd@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU) wrote:
: In article <1994Mar9.094748.4022@swan.pyr> iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox) writes:
: >		BSD			Linux
: >Shells		bash,tcsh,ksh		bash,tcsh,ksh
: >X windows	Xfree86			Xfree86
: >Utilities	GNU			GNU
: >Compiler	GCC			GCC


: That doesn't help people out who don't have i386's...

: 		NetBSD			Linux
: 		i386			i386
: 		amiga			amiga ("barely"?)
: 		Mac
: 		sparc
: 		hp300
: 		pc532


: All the utilities in the world matter not a whit, if all you've
: got is a SPARCstation and a Solaris2 CD...  8-)


: chris
: --
: chris g. demetriou                                   cgd@cs.berkeley.edu

:                        you can eat anything once.
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