Re: Why are you on a *nix desktop? -- LINUXDESKTOP4I

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Subject: Re: Why are you on a *nix desktop?
From: R Bruce Hoffman <bruce.hoffman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:16:37 -0500
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On 11/04/2009 02:27 PM, Aaron Bartell wrote:

What is your *nix story? (FYI, Using an asterisk in place of the L in Linux
is a way to reference both Unix and Linux which are very similar in nature
as I understand it. I also understand that Mac OSX is more based on Unix
than Linux. )

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.co

Again, for OS X not Unix, FreeBSD, BSD was based on Unix as was Linux.

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