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To: Jim Casey <jimcasey@sprynet.com>
Subject: Re: Popularity
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> How popular is FreeBSD in comparrison to Linux ?
>

and since when is popularity a valid guage of quality?  linux does win out  
on the New Kernels Released Per Second benchmarks ;-)

> I am looking for a Unix OS to practice on. I manage a Sco Unix based
> network and want something That I can "Bang on". Linux was ok, But I am
> wondering if FreeBsd would be more like SCO.

thank god, no.  i will be replacing our lone SCO machine with FreeBSD  
running IBCS emulation in the very near future.


b3n