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Subject: Re: FreeBSD books (was: Amusing: LinuxCountry site runs on FreeBSD :)) 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 22 Jun 1999 06:52:44 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 06:33:57 -0700
From: Greg Shenaut <greg@bogslab.ucdavis.edu>
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In message <000001bebc9d$5bd7a8a0$4840758e@380xd.qc.bell.ca>, "LEPAGE, YVES" cleopede:
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>From: Jerry Dunham <jdunham@freeside.fc.net>
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>>I guess I should have read this before replying before.  This is >really a
>>very good idea.  Might this be called "The Essential BSD" and just >cover
>>the three versions thereof, or should it include Linux as suggested >above?
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>I'd say, it depends on what you want to promote with the book.
>
>If you want to promote the book itself, then sure add Linux to it. If you
>want to promote FreeBSD, then leave it out.

Why do you say that?  Do you think that in a side-by-side comparison
with Linux, FreeBSD would come up short?

-Greg


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