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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2279 comp.os.linux.misc:12643 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!news.uh.edu!not-for-mail From: cosc19v2@menudo.uh.edu (cosc19v2) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux Date: 9 Apr 1994 17:44:35 -0500 Organization: University of Houston Lines: 14 Message-ID: <2o7b4j$ch0@menudo.uh.edu> References: <CMzw69.92K@tower.nullnet.fi> <2nq530$7hh@hecate.umd.edu> <2nt3fk$b0l@menudo.uh.edu> <2nuo9g$dmb@hecate.umd.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: menudo.uh.edu In article <2nuo9g$dmb@hecate.umd.edu>, Mark Sienkiewicz <mark@elea.umd.edu> wrote: >>I think that what is different b/w Linux users and *BSD users is that >>the former uses DOS/Linux box as a basis for the applications they use >>every day, and the latter uses *BSD for *BSD hacking (of course, in this >>case, you don't need DOS and you don't want to see it again). > >This is partly true. It seems typical (there's that word again :) >...... deleted "I consider it the obligation of scientists and intellectuals to insure that their ideas are made accessible and thus useful to society instead of being mere playthings for specialists." -B. Stroustrup, from "Design and Evolution of C++".