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From: tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk (Tom Wheeley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 97 18:49:32 GMT
Organization: Adventures and Diving
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In article <01bc43a8$5006c940$8934e3cc@rx_jearl>
jearl@box100.com "Jason Earl" writes:
> > > I'd take a summer beer festival over *any* operating system. Mmmm!
> >
> > So do I. That is the real European lifestyle some unhappy Quakers
> > fled from some centuries ago. Yes, we have beer, and yes, we have
> > summer festivals with picknicks and all that stuff, and it is only
> > bad chauvinism that it was a European who created the wonderful
> > OS known as Linux. Feeling as a true European I guess that deep
> > in Linusī heart there was the wish to free us from American OSses;-)
> > Did he not do his job marvellously? BTW years ago we had a lot of
> > fun at a picknick being equipped with lots of rolls of paper tape
> > and lots of beer (took some hours to remove the traces).
>
> Well, I am not a beer drinker, and not from Europe, but if using Linux
> qualifies you for the "true European experience" then sign me up :).
Sorry, you have to drink beer as well. Not American "beer" mind, the real
stuff. Luckily for you Boddingtons is now available in the US.
(see: http://www.york.ac.uk/~jaw111/boddies/ )
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