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From: mittelst@toons.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu (Bradley Mittelstedt)
Subject: Re: BSD vs. LINUX
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On 12 Dec 1994 16:20:11 GMT, in article 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.

:>>[ this, in addition to all the other, more serious and worthwhile
:>>  additions to UN*X ]


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

Hey .. if you do not like being on the cutting edge of the kernel 
development stay at 1.0.9 and be happy.   There is no law that says you 
have to upgrade your kernel every time that a new patch has been 
released. 
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