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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:4400 comp.os.linux.misc:31537 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.cac.psu.edu!news.pop.psu.edu!hudson.lm.com!ivory.lm.com!not-for-mail From: peterb@telerama.lm.com (Peter Berger) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: BSD vs. LINUX Date: 13 Dec 1994 13:56:14 -0500 Organization: Telerama Public Access Internet, Pittsburgh, PA USA Lines: 24 Message-ID: <3ckqoe$hgc@ivory.lm.com> References: <KSTAILEY.94Dec8195010@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> <KSTAILEY.94Dec11185301@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> <3cikvv$2lq@mail.fwi.uva.nl> <3cip2g$1um@galaxy.ucr.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ivory.lm.com In article <3cip2g$1um@galaxy.ucr.edu>, Joe Sloan <jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu> wrote: >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"... Actually, his analogy doesn't infer that at all. It implies it. >The fact is, Linux is quickly becoming the Hackers's OS of choice. Oh. I'll alert the media. -- ...................................................................... Peter G. Berger, Esq. Telerama Public Access Internet, Pittsburgh Internet: peterb@telerama.lm.com Phone: 412/481-3505 Fax: 412/481-8568 http://www.lm.com/~peterb