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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?
Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers
Date: 24 Nov 1994 13:28:32 GMT
Organization: University of Stellenbosch
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Wayne Berke (berke@panix.com) wrote:
: mike@muise.hookup.net (mike muise) writes:

: >You can't, as the previous poster suggested, "just ask for it" on
: >the relevant group, because no one will bother to reply.  You can't 
: >crosspost to both relevant groups with an innocent question like 
: >"which one is better?" without starting a month-long "discussion"
: >that quickly degenerates into which OS's penis is longer.

: >So how do you do it?  There's no FAQ on the subject,

: There _is_ a FAQ.  It's periodically posted by Dave Burgess in
: comp.os.386bsd.announce.  And when I first started reading this newsgroup,
: it provided an excellent introduction to the distinction between the
: various free UNIXes.

I'll find it then ... but perhaps I was unlucky ... I did my homework anyway,
and read quite a lot of FAQs

Antony Richfield at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
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