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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
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Message-ID: <KARL.94May28085353@bagpuss.demon.co.uk>
References: <Cq6u20.KFw@hkuxb.hku.hk> <CqH2z7.29E@dit.upm.es> <2s5pok$gr8@Mercury.mcs.com>
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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.
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