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From: "Amancio Hasty, Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Dream OS = Linux || FreeBSD
Date: 29 Aug 1995 19:24:59 GMT
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Jim Williams <williams@tiac.net> wrote:
>rcarter@best.com (Russell Carter) wrote:
>>>Yes.  Making OS source supplied with the OS the norm is well worth the
>>              ^^^^^^^^^
>>Ahem.  That's *buildable* OS source, which I see is now being delivered by
>>at least one of the varied "Linux" distributions, and has been the norm
>>for *bsd for quite a long while...
>
>Yes.  Thanks for the correction.
>
>>
>>See "The Need for Vendor Source Code at NAS",
>>
>>http://www.nas.nasa.gov/NAS/TechReports/RNDreports/RND-94-007/RND-94-007.html
>
>403 forbidden.  Either it cannot find my DNS name or I'm not allowed...
>
>>
>>for ammunition when you want to get buildable source code from a recalcitrant
>>vendor.
>
>Sounds like it would have been interesting.
>
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Russell
>>
>>Oh, and I guess I need a ps: piecing together the parts *does* *not* *count*
>
>In fact, I'd say that "buildable" isn't quite good enough.  After you've built
>the OS from source then the resulting files had better match.  :)
>
>Of course, with Linux there might be a question about just what it should
>match....  Hey, some of us happen to enjoy crusing about in the fog at
>90 mph.

Hi Guys,

I think that is much better to slug it out with the windoze corp types .
At work yesterday, trying to setup Win95 to work with TCP/IP and an
ethernet card. My friend does a "ping <ip-address> ", the whole 
window setup freezes for a few seconds and he said: What Happen?
I told him: Oh, Win95 is doing multitasking :)

-- 
Amancio Hasty
Hasty Software Consulting Services
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