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From: joev@mikasa.WPI.EDU (Joseph W. Vigneau)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: BSD vs. LINUX
Date: 12 Dec 1994 17:50:07 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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References: <KSTAILEY.94Dec8195010@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> <NELSON.94Dec12103328@crynwr.crynwr.com> <3cht7r$ajk@solaris.cc.vt.edu>
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In article <3cht7r$ajk@solaris.cc.vt.edu>,
Jon 'Mr. Outrageous' Lido <jlido@cray-ymp.acm.stuorg.vt.edu> wrote:
>nelson@crynwr.crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) wrote:
>>You goober!  LINUX has brought DOOM to UN*X!  What more could you
>>possibly want?
>
>So Doom is part of Linux now?  Come on!  Linux had nothing to do with
>it.  There's nothing special about Linux that makes Doom run on it,
>except some guy at iD thought it would be cool to port it to his
>Linux box.  Besides, Linux isn't the only "UN*X" to run Doom.

Well, *BSD doesn't.. :) To quote Opus: "pfttpptftpt" :P

>Linux brings us the tri-weekly kernel patch!  (You "tri" it
>and your computer is broken for a week! :)

Along with this "tri-weekly patch" you get performance enhancements,
additional hardware driver enhancements, etc..   It's not always a bad
thing...  Besides, the last patch is almost a week old :)

Joe, happily running Linux 1.1.72 with PCI enhancements and Pentium FDIV bug
reporting :)
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