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Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 12:14:11 -0600
To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, wonko@entropy.tmok.com
From: "Jonathan E. Lyons" <parrothd@midwest.net>
Subject: Re: Why is FreeBSD better than Linux? 
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At 06:18 PM 12/6/99 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>
>
>On Mon, 06 Dec 1999 11:09:43 EST, Brian Hechinger wrote:
>
>> but how do i convince others that linux is probably not the correct choice?
>
>I don't suppose you bothered to try searching the world wide web before
>asking this frequently asked question here, eh?  When I ask Hotbot (my
>search engine of choice) to show me documents concerning "FreeBSD vs.
>Linux" the first site it lists is:
>
>	http://www.futuresouth.com/~fullermd/freebsd/bsdvlin.html
>

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