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Date:      Sat, 19 Apr 1997 14:01:53 -0400
From:      Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
To:        scrappy@hub.org
Cc:        jack@diamond.xtalwind.net, mark@quickweb.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: On Holy Wars, and a Plea for Peace [sorry Danny, wherever you are, but the title fits]...
Message-ID:  <199704191801.OAA20718@diazepam.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.970419143222.4592I-100000@thelab.hub.org> (message from The Hermit Hacker on Sat, 19 Apr 1997 14:34:00 -0300 (ADT))

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>> How come Linux is so well-known?  What in its history caused it to
>> take the spotlight?
>	Pretty much the first *free* Unix-like operating system.  I think
>its only predecessor was Minix(?)  It wasn't for about a year after I played
>with Linux that I even heard of FreeBSD...

What about NetBSD?  I thought it was around before Linux.

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