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Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 16:44:07 -0700
To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Subject: Re: Linux "best of breed?"
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Well, I'm sorry, but I don't continue to nag, it doesn't look as
if anything is going to happen. Fact is, FreeBSD is losing fast
to Linux in mindshare, and if this trend isn't turned around soon
there will be no way to do anything about it later. You'll see
lots of great UNIX programming tools, applications, etc. coded 
in a way that's so Linux-specific that you won't be able to get 
by without a Linux box. Do you really want to have to shake your
head and tell people, "I'd like to recommend FreeBSD for this
task, but under the circumstances you'd really best go with Linux?"

Sorry to disturb you, but this is your wake-up call.

--Brett Glass

At 02:13 PM 11/5/98 -0800, Jason C. Wells wrote:
 
>On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Brett Glass wrote:
>
>>Oh, I forgot: FreeBSD doesn't DO PR.
>
>Would you get off it?
>
>Catchya Later,		|	UW Mechanical Engineering
>Jason Wells		|	http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/
>


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