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Greg Black wrote:
> 

> "Ron" wrote:
> 
> | > Anthony Ison <anthony.ison at gbst.com> moved upon the face of the 'Net and
> | spake thusly:
> | >
> | > FreeBSD is for people who like to run Enlightenment and all the
> | > associated multimedia bells and whistles, and think that having 10%
> | > better filesystem througput is a "killer app".
> | >
> | Well I don't know what Enlightenment is, don't have a sound card installed,
> | no bells, no whistles, but I'll certainly think twice about saying that I
> | run FreeBSD... obviously not much better than windoze. Or was that a joke?
> 
> Sounds more like lack of information to me.

Give me an integrated kernel/userland base, consistent hier (7), CVS
development, professional documentation, over the mish-mash that are
Linux distros any day.


Ian Pulsford

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