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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD VS BSDI, INC.
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 11:40:53 -0700
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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To: Jim Sloan <jsloan@LiveNet.Net>

Jim Sloan wrote:
> other servers run FreeBSD.  If FreeBSD's ppp was as stable and easy to setup
> as BSDi's was, I would drop the BSDi completely, since the scripts between the
> two are not that much different as far as maintaining the system.  In

We hopefully will soon be giving you exactly what you've asked for.  Our
ppp implementation is slated for some major revision now that there's
actual corporate interest in paying to have the work done (psst, any ppp
hackers need a job? :-)
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project