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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Freebsd or Slackware Linux ?
Date: 11 Feb 1997 02:28:50 GMT
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Curt Finch <curt@zxcv-pc.jumpnet.com> wrote:

> even so, freebsd is better.  it's a real unix.  linux is kind of
> a hacked together thing from what i hear.

Na, that's a little harsh.  Sure, the `diversity' in Linux is broader,
so you find not only much more contributions, but also much more
hacked-together contributions.  But the core of the kernel is
certainly not of bad quality either.  (There's more chaos in the
various distributions, i think.)

The usual advice to this question is just: unless you've already got a
bias into one direction, try them both, and look yourself.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)