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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!newsspool.doit.wisc.edu!koala.uwec.edu!daffy.anetsrvcs.uwrf.edu!tigger!not-for-mail From: bl03@uwrf.edu (BENJAMIN A LINDSTROM) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Followup-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit Date: 17 Nov 1995 21:25:01 GMT Lines: 25 Message-ID: <48iujd$hat@daffy.anetsrvcs.uwrf.edu> References: <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> <48gk8o$chc@pell.com> <48in8iINN1v9@anvil.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: tigger.acc.uwrf.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950726BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:27416 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:8985 comp.unix.advocacy:11043 comp.unix.misc:19512 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:8848 Kazimir Kylheku (c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca) wrote: : In article <48gk8o$chc@pell.com>, Orc <orc@pell.com> wrote: : >In article <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu>, : >Jack Hou <hou@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> wrote: : >>Hello, : >> : >>I am choosing between Linux and FreeBSD for my home PC. : > : > Ask your technically knowledgable friends which they run. Ask : >yourself who you'd rather ask for help when the machine doesn't : >work properly, then find out what she's running and use it. FreeBSD : >and Linux are close enough to being the same thing so that you won't : >notice any difference 99% of the time. : : I can't even believe that there are FreeBSD vs. Linux threads. Duh. : : This is one of those rare times when I have to put purely UNIX postings : into a kill filter. It's good every once in a while to step back from your OS (or try as the case maybe with some people =) and see what others support that you don't. This thread could EASIABLE Linux vs Windows or Linux vs Mac (note I have seen a few of these. =). No matter how much people don't want to admit it. We have to pull our heads out of the sand once in a while to catch a new coming idea.