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#! rnews 1428 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!newsmaster From: Nathan Hand <Nathan.Hand@anu.edu.au> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 15:19:15 +1100 Lines: 16 Message-ID: <3324DD43.7BD4304B@anu.edu.au> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5dadfr$cnu@web.nmti.com> <n4stf5.tq2.ln@zen> <E6sIEF.1qE@truffula.sj.ca.us> NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.148.83 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b2 (X11; I; Linux 2.0.18 i586) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:163769 comp.os.linux.advocacy:87670 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2776 Not my real address wrote: > > My choice of Linux over FreeBSD was an accident: at the time I was giving > up on SCO I couldn't find any information about FreeBSD while alt.os.linux > was pretty busy. How many advocates for one or the other will admit their > choice was similarly arbitrary? When I was dumping ISC I was looking at FreeBSD (maybe NetBSD?) and Linux. The FreeBSD installation was 40 x 3.5" floppies and I didn't even have a 3.5" drive! The Linux distribution was only 10 x 5.25" floppies, and that included X. My choice was instantaneous. -- I remember seeing a sign on a power station that was trilingual: English, French, and American. It said "No Admission. Pas D'admission. Keep Out".