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From: kmh@linux.stevens-tech.edu (Kurt M. Hockenbury)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD
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Date: 5 Dec 1995 04:36:43 GMT
Organization: Stevens Institute of Technology
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Lars Koeller (uphya001@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de) wrote:
: The only UN*X which NEEDS special documentation is LINUX!
You obviously have never had to admin AIX. :-/
For that mater, Solaris 2.x has enough quirks of it's own to warrent
special docs. :-(
Anyway, the Linux vs FreeBSD arguements are largly pointless. Both are
good, stable, freely available OSes. Try them both, use what works best
for you, or if you can't be bothered to load both, find out what people
local to you are using, and use that (that way you have someone nearby
to ask questions of).
If someone had told me ten years ago that we'd be having arguements over
which of four (five? six?) free, source available, Unix operating systems
is "best", I would have told them I'd be overjoyed to have such problems.
The free operating systems work better when cooperating on code, anyhow
(e.g., the math emulator, the sound drivers, etc.). That way everyone
benefits.
-Kurt
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