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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
Date: 11 Feb 1997 09:59:53 GMT
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JYoungman@vggas.com (James Youngman) wrote:

> [ ... ]  John was saying that [FreeBSD] 2.1.5 is slower than 
> [FreeBSD] 2.2.  In Linux terms, [FreeBSD] 2.1.5 is a production 
> release and [FreeBSD] 2.2 is a development release.
> It isn't vapourware.

But for fairness, you should add that FreeBSD 2.2 is not yet released,
but currently available as 2.2-GAMMA.

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j