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From: nickkral@america.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Nick Kralevich)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux
Date: 3 Apr 1996 09:03:36 GMT
Organization: Electrical Engineering Computer Science Department, University of California at Berkeley
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In article <4jsua0$6oc@dyson.iquest.net>,
John S. Dyson <root@dyson.iquest.net> wrote:
>Not really, but we are careful :-).  Please refer to the pain of the Linux
>users in the Linux mailing lists during the transition. 

I don't see how there was a lot of pain.  The people who suffered the
most where the ones who decided to upgrade early.  Personally, I just
waited til a Linux ELF distribution was released, then upgraded.
No pain at all.

>FreeBSD will manage
>the transition better for it's user base (when it needs to transition.) 

Ummm, ya, sure, whatever.  (why do I find this phrase highly suspect?)

Take care,
-- Nick Kralevich
   nickkral@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu