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From: JYoungman@vggas.com (James Youngman)
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
Date: 3 Feb 1997 14:26:00 GMT
Organization: VG Gas Analysis Systems
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In article <32F3810D.237C228A@FreeBSD.org>, jkh@FreeBSD.org says...

>Does Debian benefit from Red Hat's customer bug
>reports?  

Indirectly.  Red Hat are careful to propagate fixes back to package 
maintainers.

>How about Slackware?

I'm not sure Slackware benefits from anybody's bug reports :-)


-- 
James Youngman       VG Gas Analysis Systems |The trouble with the rat-race 
 Before sending advertising material, read   |is, even if you win, you're 
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/47/227.html|still a rat.