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Date:      Mon, 14 Sep 1998 15:15:15 +0200
From:      Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za>
To:        Kris Carlsen <kcarlsen@slip.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Understanding FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <19980914151515.A13919@cityip.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <35F850C7.62775628@slip.net>; from Kris Carlsen on Thu, Sep 10, 1998 at 03:20:55PM -0700
References:  <35F850C7.62775628@slip.net>

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On Thu, 10 Sep 1998 at 15:20 SAT, Kris Carlsen wrote:
>
> Where does it fit in?
> What makes it different / better/ worse than Linux?

My stock reply to this question:

- Linux is a PC OS that happens to be more or less Unix.
- FreeBSD is BSD Unix that happens to run on PCs.

Of course, there's more to it...  ;-)

-- V

Johann Visagie | Email: wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878

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