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From: Jeremy & Beth <jnbbend@frontiernet.net>
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I'm currently a CS student and we've been using the Sun System V OS. My
quick question is - what would be the closest match to System V,
Slackware Linux or FreeBSD?  Is there a difference in the applications?
or is it just a matter of the kernel?

Thanks in advance,
jeremy