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From: arichfld@cs.sun.ac.za (Antony Richfield)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: BSD sluggish compared to Linux?
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Date: 23 Nov 1994 13:40:16 GMT
Organization: University of Stellenbosch
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Woody Jin (wjin@moocow.cs.uh.edu) wrote:
: In article <3aqbho$28b@itu1.sun.ac.za>,
: Antony Richfield <arichfld@cs.sun.ac.za> wrote:
: The reason why people didn't react was that there is a difficulty
: in answering your quesion, "BSD, Linux, which is better and why ?".
: It  was not because people are not kind to you, not because they want to
: piss you off.   But because it is really, really, really difficult
: to answer.  The question has been being the source of farocious flame wars
: among various free Unix-like OSs, and they just did not want to involve 
: in the flamewar again.

Indeed, which I all understand and appreciate ... that was why I asked
for diverse impressions.  So far I have kept people from flaming OSes
and on flaming me.

: It is unfortunate that many new users face this question and don't get
: any answer (since there can't be one ).
: Maybe rather than trying to answer this question, someone might wish
: to write something like, "New Users Guide for Free Unices", written in
: *plain* English.

Once I have set up a system with as much info as I can get, and if I
get time, like in a vacation, it would be my pleasure to help with work
on such a document.  Point being, I am willing to share what I learn with
others.

Antony Richfield at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
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