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		SagelyGuru on Oct 23, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FreeBSD 9.0-RC1 Available... This is great news, well done! The existence of FreeBSD and other 'alternative' o/s and software in general is more valuable than it may appear at first sight. I would draw an analogy between variety of software and variety of a genetic pool, from which innovation and adaptability spring.

DanBC on Oct 23, 2011 [–]

...but some of those OSs (not necessarily talking about any of the BSDs here) are more like the Northern Hairy Nosed Wombats than a viable genetic pool.

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