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From: jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu (Joe Sloan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: BSD vs. LINUX
Date: 13 Dec 1994 00:15:12 GMT
Organization: University of Calfornia at Riverside
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In article <3cikvv$2lq@mail.fwi.uva.nl>,
Frank van der Linden <vdlinden@fwi.uva.nl> wrote:
>
>About Linux making Unix popular with the crowd: they certainly have done
>that. "Linux is to the Unix community what AOL is to the Internet". Whether
>this is a good thing or not is open for anybody to interpret 8-)

I don't think so. Your analogy would infer, sir, that linux is just a 
crippled variant of UNIX, some sort of watered-down "UNIX for beginers"...

That is a very misinformed opinion...

The fact is, Linux is quickly becoming the Hackers's OS of choice.
Linux on Pentiums and 486s is replacing Sun hardware around here, I
can assure you, and doing the job every bit as well as SunOs machines
ever did, only faster! e.g. workstations for university CS courses 
(C++/X11 programming), samba and pcnfs authentication, file access & 
networked  printing services, and a whole slew of applications which are
becoming more numerous every month!)

happily linuxing, serving 30 other machines...

--
 jjs@wintermute.ucr.edu            / You can't figure out how to
 A linux machine! because a 486    / ACCELERATE your Windoze NT box?
 is a terrible thing to waste!     / -9.8 m/s^2 works quite well!!!