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From: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one?
Date: 18 Oct 1994 19:37:17 GMT
Organization: Rhodes University Computing Services
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In <CxvLAz.5z7@info.swan.ac.uk> iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox) writes:

>In article <37ma2m$1g8@nyheter.chalmers.se> augustss@cs.chalmers.se (Lennart Augustsson) writes:
>>In article <37l61p$4qr@elaine.teleport.com> bmk@teleport.com (bmk) writes:
>>>    P.S. Linux is a fine product.  I'm not slamming it; I just happen to
>>>    have an irrational dislike of all that is System V. :)
>>
>>Irrational?  What's irrational about disliking System V. :-)

>Someone once summed it up as 'Administrators hate BSD, Users hate SYS5'. 
Umm, I dunno -- from an administrators point of view, SYSV is really
terribly nightmarish.  BSD is still relatively simple by comparison :-)

Geoff.
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