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From: mandtbac@news.abo.fi (Mats Andtbacka)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Date: 2 Feb 1997 14:45:14 GMT
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Jordan K. Hubbard, in <32F3810D.237C228A@FreeBSD.org>:
>[...] Does Debian benefit from Red Hat's customer bug
>reports? How about Slackware?
depends on the bug reports.
if they concern the software packages included in the distribution(s),
they would almost certainly be getting sent to the wrong place - such
bug reports should go to whoever maintains the free software in
question, so that every distribution maintainer can benefit. bug
reports that concern how a given distribution is put together would be
sort of useless to another distribution.
(and no, i don't see Linux as being "fragmented" due to there being
different distributions. that's because i don't buy Stallman's silly
argument that "the utilities are part of the OS"; the kernel, in my
opinion, defines the OS, and there can be only one Linux kernel.)
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