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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!news.uoregon.edu!tezcat!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!europa.clark.net!news.clark.net!not-for-mail From: wmcbrine@clark.net (William McBrine) Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Date: 21 Mar 1997 20:43:03 GMT Organization: Clark Internet Services, Inc. Lines: 23 Message-ID: <5gursn$a9g@clarknet.clark.net> References: <332c9a76.3278270@news.adelaide.on.net> <5gjg12$r6d$1@news.belwue.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: explorer2.clark.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA release 960824] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:19277 comp.os.linux.misc:165662 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37492 In alt.os.linux Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@rubin.noc.dfn.de> wrote: : 3) Check out which newsgroup is less noise laden. That seems biased towards FreeBSD -- they get less noise because they get less traffic. I suggest, instead, that you seek the newsgroups with the most information. ;-) Really, though, I'm amazed at how nasty the *BSD vs. Linux discussions get at times. The whole thing reminds me of Monty Python's "Life of Brian", when the two rival Jewish insurgent groups meet in the tunnel and start fighting, and Brian urges them to stop bashing each other and unite against their common foe... All: "THE JUDEAN PEOPLE'S FRONT?!" Brian: "NO, NO, THE *ROMANS*!" All: "Oh, yeah, the Romans..." -- William McBrine | http://www.clark.net/pub/wmcbrine/html/ wmcbrine@clark.net | Vote Ralph Nader for President in 2000!