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From: rone@ennui.ops.best.com (Ron Echeverri)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD ...
Date: 7 May 1996 22:47:17 -0700
Organization: tech support droids on the verge of a nervous breakdown
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Message-ID: <4mpch5$97t@ennui.ops.best.com>
References: <3188C1E2.45AE@onramp.net> <4mnsc5$6qo@sundial.sundial.net> <318FD68B.60AD12F6@lambert.org> <4mouan$cpb@agate.berkeley.edu>
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In article <4mouan$cpb@agate.berkeley.edu>,
Nick Kralevich <nickkral@america.CS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
>In article <318FD68B.60AD12F6@lambert.org>,
>Terry Lambert  <terry@lambert.org> wrote:
>>Again, your choice to buy the hardware.
>That's not much consolation to a user who happens to have a non-working
>(under FreeBSD) CD-ROM drive that they can get easially working under 
>Linux.

If an operating system allows me to use hardware that is broken, that makes
the operating system suspect in my book.

rone
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Ron Echeverri           Best Internet Technical Support           rone@best.net
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