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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!nntp.uio.no!news.apfel.de!nntp.zit.th-darmstadt.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PPP Masquerading in FreeBSD Distributions? Date: 10 Dec 1996 02:46:44 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 36 Message-ID: <58iiuk$qjv@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961127181207.9864B-100000@darkstar> <58emkt$me3@uriah.heep.sax.de> <Pine.LNX.3.95.961208154047.29394A-100000@nanaimo.island.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Charles Mott <cmott@srv.net> wrote: > The General Secretary looked around the room > with a cold stare. "We must catch up to Linus, > and then we must surpass him!" His fist > banged against the table. Umm, no, the real slogan was ``Überholen ohne Einzuholen!'' (Surpass without catching up.) ;-) Well, the Walter Ulbricht era actually, but he's also been a General Secretary once... > The head of the KGB calmly replied, "What > you desire is not so easy to attain. The > decentralized system of the Linux world seems > have some advantages. They have been able > to develop new drivers at a remarkable > pace. They have also been able to adapt to > entirely new microprocessor designs. It > is actually quite startling." Btw., that's already way too much technical details for a General Secretary. And, he would never have admitted to be behind the time... he simply believed _he_ were the best. Well, history, and probably slightly :) off-topic now... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)