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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!pipex!demon!bagpuss.demon.co.uk!bagpuss.local.net!karl From: karl@bagpuss.demon.co.uk (Karl Strickland) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD? Date: 28 May 1994 07:53:53 GMT Lines: 20 Message-ID: <KARL.94May28085353@bagpuss.demon.co.uk> References: <Cq6u20.KFw@hkuxb.hku.hk> <CqH2z7.29E@dit.upm.es> <2s5pok$gr8@Mercury.mcs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bagpuss.local.net In-reply-to: dleeds@MCS.COM's message of 27 May 1994 16:47:00 -0500 In article <2s5pok$gr8@Mercury.mcs.com> dleeds@MCS.COM (Daniel Leeds) writes: > GARCIA VALDEARENAS (cdt94001@oasis.dit.upm.es) wrote: > : Linux is faster than FreeBSD, but has a very poor network support. If you are not > : going to be connected to a network Linux is better. Linux supports graphics whithout > : X. Linux can execute many MS-DOS programs using a MS-DOS emulator (exceptions are > : all MS-Windows programs). Linux can execute all SCO binaries (so you can buy many > : programs for Linux) . > > BAH! If you want to run shitty dos then use dos. All this crap about > emulating dos/windows in UNIX sickens me. Use it the way it should be > used, not to run fucking emulators. And FreeBSD doesnt support X and > graphics?? What are you smoking crack?? Just what I want to do, buy $$$ > programs for a free operating system. Is that a flame? :-) If you've got something to say man, spit it out. -- ------------------------------------------+----------------------------------- Posted using GNUS 4.1 on FreeBSD | Karl Strickland PGP 2.3a Public Key Available. | Internet: karl@bagpuss.demon.co.uk "VI. THE SHELL" - BSD PS2:1-9 :-) | or: karl%mvax@bagpuss.demon.co.uk