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by grumpyprole 1651 days ago
I remember being a new Linux user in the mid-90s at university. I was told by more than one computer science nerd that FreeBSD was more mature and reliable, which was probably true back then. But Linux just seemed to be where the excitement was (it even had coloured ls output!).
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>was more mature and reliable, which was probably true back then.

Those two points are still true compared to linux.