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From: bodar@news.cac.psu.edu (Robert Cundiff)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
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Date: 4 Mar 1997 07:17:31 GMT
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Eugene O'Neil (eugene@cs.umb.edu) wrote:
: In article <3313DC43.17EB@pharmacology.unimelb.edu.au>, 
: a.sobon@pharmacology.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
: >> Besides which, let's take an extreme example. Let's say there's 1 BSD
: >> user and 1,000,000 Linux users. How many people can possibly change
: >> BSD ->Linux. How many can possibly change Linux->BSD?
: >
: >I did both, i went from linux -> freebsd -> linux
: >
: >WHY!?!?! sure freebsd was ok, stable ran nicely, maybe network was
: >faster
: >BUT I am running a enduser desktop box for my self, and it sure had a
: >lack
: >of apps for it that were binary only for Linux, 2. Netscape4 for BSDi is
: >sharelib
: >linked so it ONLY runs on BSDi and not FreeBSD.
: >
: >Id run bsd as a server, and linux as an enduser fun box. People will go
: >to the platform
: >with most 'cool' apps
: >-Raul

: I think that's the first time I've ever heard anyone refer to Linux as "the 
: platform with the most cool apps."

: -Eugene

Yeah ... has a nice ring to it ... doesn't it?? ... and just think... every
app that goes to Linux will eventually go to BSD if it is any good... and
all of us will be moving up in the world.... 

Rob