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Date:      Mon, 01 Mar 1999 03:44:39 -0800
From:      D Pilgrim <dpilgrim@uswest.net>
To:        "Robert A. Bruce" <rab@pike.cdrom.com>
Cc:        Dave Yost <Dave@Yost.com>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The Linux PR firestorm disaster (w.r.t. FreeBSD)
Message-ID:  <36DA7DA6.9A7E6D99@uswest.net>
References:  <199903010058.QAA24952@pike.cdrom.com>

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On Feb 29, 1999 @ around 00:59 GMT, "Robert A. Bruce" wrote:
> What does FreeBSD have that Linux doesn't?  I don't think that such
> a table would be very "forbidding".

Emulation of the other OS for starters.  Legacy ancestry for another.
How's about the fact that the DALnet IRC network does not permit
Linux based servers due to Linux being unable to handle the high
client loads (it's a threading problem)?  What OS did they switch
their Linux machines over too?  Why, FreeBSD, of course.

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