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From: tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
Date: 6 Feb 1997 13:20:46 -0500
Organization: Panix
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In article <5dd624$b05@oden.abc.se>, Jonas Bofjall <m9418@abc.se> wrote:
>Curt Sampson (cjs@cynic.portal.ca) wrote:
>
>>    FreeBSD: turning PCs into workstations.
>>    Linux: turning workstations in to PCs.
>
>Comments like this make me hold on to Linux, even though I have not tried
>FreeBSD.

Yeah, well, any operating system that needs an "advocacy" newsgroup just to
keep the foaming under control...

Mind you, I used to be an Amiga bigot, so I remember what it's like to know
what the One True Way is and Go Forth And Prostletyze.  It just wears a bit
thin after years and years.

-- 
Thor Lancelot Simon	                                          tls@panix.COM

 Stumbling drunk in the railyard looking for God: http://www.panix.com/~tls/