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Doug Young wrote:
> 
> If the experience of many people with linux is like mine I wouldn't count on
> any significant migration from linux to FreeBSD. After a bad year struggling
> with the disgusting linux documentation, the often totally bigoted faithful

The bigoted faithful of Linux won't switch. But they are only a fragment
of a tiny minority (you can tell who they are since they pronounce Linux
as "guh-noo-lin-nooks"). 

I heard an old story about how people decide on which Linux distribution
they finally stick with. They bounce from distro to distro until they
find one that matches their personality, hardware and/or configuration.
This is the one they stick with. If it happens to be FreeBSD, then
they'll be a BSDer for life.

Unfortunately, some Linuxers get caught up in the whole GNU jihad, and
then the choice of a distribution becomes a religious imperative...

David

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