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From: "Z. Liu" <liuz@zinfandel.amd.com>
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?)
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 23:12:20 -0800
Organization: AMD
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Jens Schweikhardt wrote:

> The differences aren't big. But details vary. For example compare
> how to report bugs. FreeBSD's send-pr is a breeze and I always got
> a response and in the next release it was fixed. Didn't have such
> luck with Linux.
> 

I have to wait for the next release? I prefer to fix it myself
or bug the author :-).

BTW, I have the opportunties to fix some ugly xxxBSD bugs.
I hope the current xxxBSD is all ANSI C and uses -Wall with
gcc by now.



H.J.