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From: berke@panix.com (Wayne Berke)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: BSD sluggish compared to Linux?
Date: 23 Nov 1994 22:11:30 GMT
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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.
--
Wayne Berke
berke@panix.com