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From: Eric Ewanco <eje@world.std.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Extremely low memory system
Date: 18 Sep 1995 13:20:05 GMT
Organization: XYPLEX
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In article <MICHAELV.95Sep17014327@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon) writes:

>    In addition, don't mean to start a flame-war, but you might consider
>    FreeBSD or NetBSD instead of Linux for those things.  It would feel
>    much more familiar to all those people would would be used to using
>    all those Ultrix (a BSD derivative) DECstations you guys have all over
>    the place.

Well, with all due respect, as a former Digital employee who had a DECstation
for 3 1/2 years (and used them at school for 3 years before that, I found
easing into Linux trivial and the vast majority of what I was used to was
present on Linux.

Now, granted, experience with the former OSF/1 (now Digital Unix) on Alpha AXP
machines helped a little (these being a bit more System-V like).

Eric


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# __   __                    Eric Ewanco 
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# ---+---           Software Engineer, Xyplex Inc.
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