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From: aad@nwnet.net (Anthony D'Atri)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: NetBSD camp reaction to OpenBSD?
Date: 29 Nov 1995 09:21:42 -0800
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>Why should they be? Have you counted the number of different
>`distributions' of Linux lately?

It's something like 18, I'm told.  It's one of the reasons why I decided
against the PC-Unix route and bought a used Sun.

>user space differences between the Net/Free/Open/whateverBSDs that
>you do between the different Linux distributions. They can't even
>agree on a common directory hierarchy.

Or object-file format.  As I understand it, many (all?) of them don't even
come with dump(1).