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From: nelson@seahunt.imat.com (Michael Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: The better (more suitable)Unix?? FreeBSD or Linux
Date: 17 Feb 1996 16:49:26 GMT
Organization: MN Consulting, San Francisco
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In article <jlemonDMttxH.JyJ@netcom.com>, jlemon@netcom.com (Jonathan Lemon) writes:
|> 
|> Bah Humbug indeed.  Since this was crossposted to c.o.l.d.s, I went over there
|> to take a peek.  Guess what I found?  Not one, not two, but at least _three_
|> users who have had problems with ext2fs.

	Wow!  Three?  What a scathing indictment of an operating system
and filesystem being run by hundreds of thousands of satisfied users!

	Three people is probably a pretty significant percentage of the
pool of FreeBSD users, but is scarcely noticeable in the pool of users of
the FAR more popular Linux.

	Michael

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Michael Nelson                          nelson@seahunt.imat.com
San Francisco, CA