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Date:      Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:22:01 -0500
From:      "Kenneth P. Stox" <ken@stox.org>
To:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: WooHoo! 10 years of FreeBSD
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On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 18:24 -0600, rloefgren@forethought.net wrote:
> > I sometimes wonder how different things would be if he'd been a linux fan and
> > shipped me some slackware cds or something.
> 
> 
> You might have started with Slackware and ended up at FreeBSD anyway; like 
> I did.
> 
> (I don't use it anymore but I still maintain a Slack subscription. I don't 
> like Linux's helter-skelter system layout but Slack represents a 
> philosophy that needs to stick around, although some have been writing it 
> off as long as BSD has been dieing). :)

Pat Volkerding does an incredible job with Slackware. Hail BoB! 

I still run FreeBSD, though. 

-Ken

P.S. I might have been the first person to ever utter the word "Unix" to
Pat. ;->




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