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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:4434 comp.os.linux.misc:31777 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!qiclab!psgrain!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!newshost.marcam.com!news.mathworks.com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!utnut!torn!uunet.ca!uunet.ca!fw.novatel.ca!sidney.novatel.ca!hpeyerl From: hpeyerl@sidney.novatel.ca (Herb Peyerl) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: BSD vs. LINUX Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Date: 14 Dec 1994 13:31:21 GMT Organization: NovAtel Communications Ltd. Lines: 17 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3cms39$fim@fw.novatel.ca> References: <KSTAILEY.94Dec8195010@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> <maericksD0Mu2u.Dpy@netcom.com> <3cfsi7$eab@nkosi.well.com> <KSTAILEY.94Dec11185301@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> <3cikvv$2lq@mail.fwi.uva.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: sidney.novatel.ca X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] 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-) And in following, I think it an interesting observation that the only people who actually *commented* about running DOOM were the Linux people. Personally, I *saw* someone running DOOM at work once and while I thought it was an interesting hack, it didn't make me want to blow away NetBSD and install Linux. And besides, Linux wouldn't run on my hp345 or decstation anyhow... (No offense intended to the ID guy(s)). -- hpeyerl@novatel.ca | NovAtel Communications Ltd. hpeyerl@beer.org | <nothing I say matters anyway> On your birthday 10/02 322 BC: Aristotle dies of indigestion. [hmm]