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From: John Dyson <dyson@freebsd.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs freeBSD
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 00:57:25 -0500
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Ari wrote:
> 
> Can anyone tell me which OS is better and why?More popular?Relative
> strengths/weaknesses?
> 
I strongly suggest that you give yourself to try both.  Even
though I am a FreeBSD expert (and partisan), I have had fun
installing Linux. It is very hard to get unbiased and informative
answers to the questions that you ask (except the fact that
generally Linux is more popular.)

Try both and have fun -- they are both very inexpensive, and neither
are cheap...

John
dyson@freebsd.org