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On 21 Jun 2003 at 18:45, Josef El-Rayes wrote:

> Peter <pfak@telus.net> wrote:
> > Found an interesting article on TechTV, seems to portray FreeBSD in a very
> > good light. Might be good for some promotional thing, to print out and
> > distribute.
> 
> although i find this quite nice it seems to be a bit too much of
> pro-freebsd. it also needs some updating. linux has got a journaling
> filesystem, ext2 is not the choice anymore. commercial support is better
> for linux than for freebsd. i also think that linux has usually a better
> device driver support, or put it this way, a broader variety. 

It should also be comparing Windows XP, not Windows 2000.  I don't 
think we'd like it if they looking at FreeBSD 4.2...
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