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Re: [off-topic] Get your free FreeBSD 2.2.6 CD
On Tue, 5 May 1998, Guy Cohen wrote:
>
> So, let me ask you this ..
> what whould happen if a mail whould got to the list
> with the topic of:
> "Get your free Win95/98/NT CD" ?
> is there any diffrence ?
Yes.
For starters, FreeBSD is a free program and Windows'95 is not.
For seconders, FreeBSD and Linux have a lot in common, both in what they
are and their userbases. I personally would've been very interested in the
offer if the proposal hadn't come from Haifa.
And thirdly, I don't think that the fact that this is 'linux-il' as
opposed to say - 'bsd-il' means that the opinions on the list should all
be in favour of Linux. Far from it, I personally believe that installing
FreeBSD, OpenBSD, BSDi, or Solaris x86 on my machine (and in fact, I'm
planning on installing all 4 in addition to Linux) would be a very
refreshing change. And I believe many Linux users who aren't you have
enough sense to know that linux is not necessarily the holy grail of
Unices.
Regards,
Nir.
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