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From: ranjit@fwasted.zk3.dec.com (Ranjit Mathews USG)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. other Unix's (Linux, etc.)
Date: 18 Jun 1996 20:59:59 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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Message-ID: <4q75cf$end@zk2nws.zko.dec.com>
References: <4pl73c$3d2a@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> <4prrt6$19s@krant.cs.ruu.nl> <4q0gsk$dd@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com> <31C48C32.6BFC@www.play-hookey.com> <4q2cq9$sr7@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com>
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To: aks@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com

Show me a vendor that doesn't support BSD APIs. BSD lives on in the interfaces
supported by Sys V implementations; code developed for BSD is generally portable
to all commercial Unixes.


In article <4q2cq9$sr7@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com>, aks@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com writes:
|> Ken Bigelow (kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com) wrote:
|> : However, in view of your opinion, I'm surprised by the number of recent posts 
|> : I see in this newsgroup with your name on them. If you don't like FreeBSD (and 
|> : I'm sure you're not alone), that is entirely your privilege. But in that case, 
|> : I'd really appreciate it if you would move off to some newsgroup that deals 
|> : with whatever it is that you *do* like, and have the courtesy to stop 
|> : cluttering up this NG with this kind of garbage.
|> 
|> : Thank you,
|> 
|> : Ken
|> 
|> Don't be so sensitive. Face the facts. Don't lie to yourself. BSD is dead.
|> Show me a single major vendor which does not move or moved to System V.

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