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Date:      Tue, 12 Jun 2001 04:23:47 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>
To:        Crist Clark <crist.clark@globalstar.com>
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org, advocacy@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BSD Article in Information Security Magazine
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10106120419530.28915-100000@moo.sysabend.org>
In-Reply-To: <3B25310D.2E6571B@globalstar.com>

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On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Crist Clark wrote:

:The author, Pete Loshin, makes is sound as if a *BSD is the natural
:progression from using a Linux flavor. Thinking about it, I do notice
:a lot of people on *BSD mail lists who say they used to use Linux and
:now use a *BSD, but seldom hear the reverse (with the exception of people
:who have to use Linux at work for some reason or another). I wonder
:how much movement there is between the two camps... not that every 
:person necessarily has to be a card-carrying Linux- or *BSD-zealot
:and not have some appreciation for a variety of projects/products.

I chose FreeBSD over Linux simply because it was more like SunOS 4.1.x
(which is what the Sun on my desk at work ran at the time).  I really
hated the question and answer script method of kernel building present in
Linux, that was just totally alien.

Jamie Bowden

-- 
"It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold"
Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur"
Iain Bowen <alaric@alaric.org.uk>



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