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This is the text of the email I sent to the LAN Times editor:

> Thank you for this excellent article informing people of the
> high-quality alternatives to expensive and crash-prone commercial
> operating systems offerings.
> 
> The authors coverage of systems derived from BSD was rather
> limited.  While an excellent product, BSD/OS from BSDi is
> certainly not the only currently available BSD system, and
> perhaps not even the most widely distributed.
> 
> FreeBSD is the premier BSD-derived system for the standard
> "PC" architecture.  It is fast and robuts, has a large number
> of applications available in binary installation kit form,
> and is available for free via ftp download, or at a small
> price on CD-ROM from Walnut Creek CDROM.  For details, see:
> 
>         http://freebsd.org/
> 
> The NetBSD development team has focused on platform portability
> as their primary goal.  NetBSD is currently available on a
> number of computing platforms, including the PC, both PowerPC
> and M68K based Macintoshes, Sun SPARC systems, and others.
> For details, see:
> 
>         http://www.netbsd.org/
> 
> OpenBSD is focused on systematically discovering and fixing
> all security holes in the BSD operating system.  OpenBSD is
> closely related to FreeBSD and NetBSD, but usually follows
> somewhat in device driver support, due to the extensive 
> checking performed on code before being included in the OpenBSD
> system.  For details, see:
> 
>         http://www.openbsd.org/
> 
> Each of the above systems provides a fast, stable platform for
> all computing tasks, from running internet and web services
> to desktop productivity applications.  They all excell in net-
> working and software development facilities, and all use the
> XFree86 distrubition of the X Window System to provide network
> GUI support.
> 
> I hope you can provide an update to this excellent article to 
> expose your readership to the wide array of choices available
> to them.  This, after all, is what UNIX has always meant to
> users: choice.  Thank you for your time.


-- 
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