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From: Alair Pereira do Lago <alair@ime.usp.br>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
Date: 07 Feb 1997 10:50:10 -0200
Organization: Math. Institute, Univ. of Sao Paulo, Brazil
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JYoungman@vggas.com (James Youngman) writes:

> In article <32F96662.F67@citynet.net>, aubreysm@citynet.net says...
> >
> >Why should I use Linux over freeBSD or vice versa???? Help!!
> 
> If you have expert friends who use FreeBSD, use that.
> If you have expert friends who use Linux, use that.
> 
> If you have expert friends who use Windows 95, reevaluate your defintion of 
> "expert".

great! Besides the joke with win95, when I was deciding to install a unix on
PC for the first time (+- 5 years ago) I decided to use linux because I knew
people who where using linux instead of BSD386.  If the other case had
happened, perhaps I would be using FreeBSD now.  (Perhaps not since my disks
always were IDE.)

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Alair Pereira do Lago  <alair@ime.usp.br> <http://www.ime.usp.br/~alair>
Computer Science Department -- Universidade de S~ao Paulo -- Brazil