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From: kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: The better (more suitable)Unix?? FreeBSD or Linux
Date: 17 Feb 1996 02:02:47 GMT
Organization: Applied Phyics Lab
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     Mats Andtbacka wrote in article <4g2907$c93@josie.abo.fi> :
>
>Jordan K. Hubbard, in <3122B144.2781E494@FreeBSD.org>:
>>Second, I genuinely *did not know* that ext2fs could run sync.  All the
>>linux people I know run it async, the one and only Linux box I've ever
>>installed did it async, and I've certainly never had the time to do the
>>kind of research required with Linux to find out.
>
>without disrespect, you must be a very busy man that you don't even
>have the time to read the man page for mount(1). >;->
>-- 
>

And, perhaps, you do not know the commitment Jordan has made to 
FreeBSD.  (Ah, he might even have a real job).

Steven G. Kargl     | Phone: 206-685-4677 |
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