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Cal Cornils wrote:

>A couple of days ago, I found one of the best discussions I've seen that
>describes FreeBSD from a Linux user's point of view.  It leans certainly
>toward FreeBSD, but gives Linux a very fair shake.  Describes philosophy,
>release process, development process, the base system, and ports vs RPMs.
>Take a look and see what you think
>
>http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/16/1549222
>
>Cal Cornils
>Beautiful (but rainy) Napa CA
>
>  
>

Yeah, Matt was talking about his rant on
advocacy@ a few days ago, I think.  Apparently
being "/.ed" didn't kill his connection... :-)

Kevin Kinsey