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From: roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux
Date: 4 Apr 1994 22:03:31 +0200
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In article <JKH.94Apr3184442@whisker.hubbard.ie>,
Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie> wrote:
>help me?  Is there anything I can do to help make it work?"  I think
>the answer's pretty clear.  We're not commercial software
>organizations here, and we can't do it without public help and
>support.  If we get fed up and go away, where will that have gotten
>everyone?

Please, in the name of all of us *BSD users, don't give up.

Speaking of my own experience,  we have in  France a big community of Linux
users. A few friends and I are using FreeBSD. I'm traditionnally a *BSD fan
so I choose first 386BSD and then FreeBSD.

There is  a dedicated newsgroup  for linux but actually  it is used for all
the  free UNIX systems.   There have never  been  a flame  war between  us.
Everybody is trying to helpful. On both sides.

Why there is  always a  flame  war lurking  here between  Linux  and *BSD ?
People choose the UNIX they want, for their own reasons whatever they are.

People must realise that the  real `difference' is  between free UNIXes and
the other commercial ones,  not between the free  ones.  I don't care which
one is better, I choose one that's all.

Grow up people, please.

Thanks as always to all the FreeBSD team which is working very hard and all
others who are trying to useful instead of constantly flaming.
-- 
Ollivier ROBERT                          Ollivier.Robert@keltia.frmug.fr.net
A FreeBSD & PERL addict...                PGP 2.3a public key on key-servers 
Running FreeBSD-current and very happy to do so !