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From: rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly)
Subject: Re: Usefulness of BSD/Linux Source Knowledge (was BSD vs. LINUX)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
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Date: Fri, 29 Jul 1994 02:15:11 GMT
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Daniel Leeds (dleeds@MCS.COM) wrote:
: Shannon Hendrix (shendrix@escape.widomaker.com) wrote:

: : Also, SunOS is no longer a port of BSD.  It's yet another version of
: : SVR4.2 now, not BSD.  It's been that way since Solaris 2 was released
: : and it is the future, like it or not.

: SunOS != Solaris.  Wake up.  Too different products.  Solaris is what is 
: shipped nowdays, exactly why I will *NOT* buy sparcs anymore.

Sun still ships 4.1.3 (Solaris 1.1.1) for ALL there systems, even the 
newest.

: : Because BSD is dead.  I wish it were not so because I prefer BSD but
: : SVR4.2 is the future of UNIX, not BSD.  You actually made a wrong 
: : choice by your own critieria.

: Funny, I am running BSD right now.  My machine is functioning and pretty 
: fucking good thank you.  As for development there is alot of BSD 
: development going on right now, just not from Berkeley's commercial entity.

: This whole BSD is dead shit just doesn't add up missy.


Yeah, but 3 knew Linux kernels came out today. :)

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Rick Kelly  rmk@rmkhome.com  rmk@bedford.progress.com