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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!mindspring!news.mindspring.com!usenet From: kpneal@pobox.com (Kevin P. Neal) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 21:32:01 GMT Organization: Bedroom Retrocomputing Lines: 30 Message-ID: <5gf4gp$tpe@camel2.mindspring.com> References: <slrn5fejrn.353.bet@onyx.interactive.net> <32F788CE.7DA1@indy <3314C92E.1AEA58A0@brainfart.com> <3314C92E.1AEA58A0@brainfart.com> <5f4aoc$msv$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> <5f577p$99m@lynx.dac.neu.edu> <5fva2v$h7l$2@news.compuex.com> <m2wwrbeqwq.fsf@hubert.wustl.edu> Reply-To: kpneal@pobox.com NNTP-Posting-Host: user-168-121-39-4.dialup.mindspring.com X-Server-Date: 15 Mar 1997 21:32:09 GMT X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:88724 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2817 Alan Shutko <ats@hubert.wustl.edu> wrote: >>>>>> "SW" == Spanky Wicks <wicks@timlerj.indy.tce.com> writes: >SW> BTW, I really REALLY don't understand why there is currently a >SW> flamewar between BSD and LINUX, if anything the two camps to >SW> cooperate. >Probably because Linux seems to have attracted some of the worst OS >advocates since the Amiga. >(Happy user of both Linux and the Amiga.) Hey! I resemble that remark! :) (Happy user of both NetBSD and the Amiga. RedHat is in the same city as me. The LinuxExpo is going to be held fairly nearby. Guess how many NetBSD users there are at school that I know of. Two? Exactly. FreeBSD? One, maybe two. *sigh* Guess how much good one person can do in the middle of a huge Linux crowd. None? Pretty much.) -- XCOMM Kevin P. Neal, Junior, Comp. Sci. - House of Retrocomputing XCOMM mailto:kpneal@pobox.com - http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/ XCOMM kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu " *** StarDOS makes great coffee! ***" XCOMM From a mid-80's advertisement in "Compute's GAZETTE", a C64/C128 mag