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Date:      Fri, 24 Dec 1999 13:53:50 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        James Howard <howardjp@wam.umd.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Byte/Russia
Message-ID:  <19991224135350.K1316@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9912232115220.14104-100000@rac8.wam.umd.edu>
References:  <19991223112615.X1316@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.GSO.4.10.9912232115220.14104-100000@rac8.wam.umd.edu>

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On Thursday, 23 December 1999 at 21:26:17 -0500, James Howard wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Greg Lehey wrote:
>
>> In fact, it's a translation of "UNIX or BSD?" from the June Daemon
>> News (http://www.daemonnews.org/199906/d-advocate.html).  You'll note
>> my name at the end on page 81.
>
> In the copy in my hand, page 81 is smack dead in the middle of an article
> on Perl (cannot miss Larry Wall and his shirts...).  You'll note my name
> at the end of page 77.  :)
>
>> The other main articles are a translation of "The Cathedral and the
>> Bazaar" on page 16 and "ISDN Networking" on page 56.
>
> Those are articles on bug reports and notebooks, respectively.  I think we
> are talking about two different issues.  I think I said it was in the
> November issue.  Which one do you have?

Ah, I was beginning to think I got something wrong here.  Yes, this is
the October issue.

>> One thing that does impress me about the magazine is the technical
>> detail, which I haven't seen in a US magazine for decades.  They also
>> give a surprising amount of attention to UNIX.  The magazine is 96
>> pages, including all ads, and 22 of them are about UNIX.  There's an
>> almost total lack of Microsoft (just a single, albeit rather long,
>> article about setting up TCP/IP on Windoze).  Very refreshing.
>
> Indeed, I was freaking astouned by that.  There were some other articles
> on Linux, which of course, I cannot make out, except for "Linux" stuck in
> here and there.  Definetly my kind of people.  :)

Right.  Well, there could be more BSD :-)

Greg
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