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quoth the John Shelton:
> The Complete FreeBSD 3rd ed. by Greg Lehey (ISBN 1-57176-246-9) gives a
> nice table of comparisons. It is a few years old, but has (in my
> experience) remained the most fair comparison of linux and freebsd.
<big snip>
> thank you Greg Lehey!
> ~John, Linux From Scratch and FreeBSD user

Good response! It is for all those reasons that I run both systems.
-d
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