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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD
Date: 12 Dec 1995 05:29:51 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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bl03@uwrf.edu (BENJAMIN A LINDSTROM) wrote:
]
] Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote:
] : orc@pell.chi.il.us (Orc) wrote:
] : ] It's good that Linux does support all this funky hardware, but
] : ] it certainly isn't because it's Linux -- it just has a larger
] : ] userbase than the xBSD systems do. As the xBSD user community
] : ] grows, that userbase will result in more funky hardware support,
] : ] which is as it should be.
] :
] : I'd like to question this premise. UnixWare has a larger user
] : base than Linux, yet UnixWare doesn't support QIC-40/80 drives.
]
] Maybe a better comment would be:
]
] "Active User Development community"...Since it's the hackers with ODD
] hardware that is doing the ports. =)
How about "The members of the Linux User Community are more
prone to buy oddball hardware". 8-) 8-).
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.