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Date:      Sun, 11 Jan 2004 11:19:26 -0800
From:      Bill Campbell <freebsd@celestial.com>
To:        freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BSD Unix vs. Linux
Message-ID:  <20040111191926.GC85202@alexis.mi.celestial.com>
In-Reply-To: <1691D8C9A2220149A8AF30209B5D0EB4A6A8F0@sc3.shuaacapital.co.ae>

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On Sun, Jan 11, 2004, Mazen S. Alzogbi wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have a question that is bothering my brains. Why do people need Linux
>while there are great stable UNIX based systems as FreeBSD out there?

Desktop applications.

We're using SuSE's current Professional distribution and Apples OS X for
most of our desktops, and a mix of FreeBSD and Linux for servers with most
of the new servers being FreeBSD.

Bill
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