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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:4407 comp.os.linux.misc:31543 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!otis.apana.org.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!cronkite.nersc.gov!dancer.ca.sandia.gov!overload.lbl.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!enews.sgi.com!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!maericks From: maericks@netcom.com (Mark Erickson) Subject: Re: BSD vs. LINUX Message-ID: <maericksD0px23.G98@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) References: <KSTAILEY.94Dec8195010@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> <NELSON.94Dec12103328@crynwr.crynwr.com> <3cht7r$ajk@solaris.cc.vt.edu> Date: Mon, 12 Dec 1994 21:58:51 GMT Lines: 15 In article <3cht7r$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. The fact that some guy at a commercial mass-production software house has a Linux box and did the port at all is a plus in my book.... --Mark (maericks@netcom.com)