Quoting Robert Kiely (robbiekiely at eircom.net):
> Possibly true but I run both and most people on this list seem to
> run alot of different stuff as well as GNU/Linux. The differences
> between GNU/Linux and *BSD aren't that big either seen as BSD is
> basically Unix and GNU/Linux is a clone of Unix.
They're big enough that -- as you'll have seen for yourself -- they can
cause needless confusion and waste of time when the questioner fails to
mention that it's all happening on FreeBSD, as opposed to the default
reasonable expectation that questions on a LUG list concern Linux.
Thus the suggestion that the obvious screw-up entailed not recur.
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