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On Sun, Jan 11, 2004, Mazen S. Alzogbi wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have a question that is bothering my brains. Why do people need Linux
>while there are great stable UNIX based systems as FreeBSD out there?

Desktop applications.

We're using SuSE's current Professional distribution and Apples OS X for
most of our desktops, and a mix of FreeBSD and Linux for servers with most
of the new servers being FreeBSD.

Bill
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