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Subject: Re: Need advice/direction picking a distro
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On Wed, 12 May 2004 08:41:11 -0500
  "mosborne" <mosborne@cbu.edu> wrote:
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>Hi all, with the start of the summer here I am going to 
>have
>a little more time on my hands and was wanting to dig 
>into a
>new distro. Up until now I haven't had a lot of time so I
>have just been running man9.1 and I was now thinking 
>about
>making the jump to Debian or even one of the BSD's. What
>I've been looking for on the net and can't seem to find 
>is a
>good review of the pros/cons of a linux distro like 
>Debian
>vs. say freeBSD/openBSD. They all seem to have a great
>informative community and thats what makes the decision
>harder. Please try not too be too biased in your reply. 
>;]
>thx, m.
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theres an mpeg going around of a competition between 
suse&freebsd you might want to watch that one!
the difference is only that BSD's have no touch of sysv