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From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
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>>>	They told me that fixing would take "a while". If you believe that
>>>	"a while" is 20 years, then you seem to live in a different universe then I do.
>
>Indeed... I had already concluded that. It now seems that in
>your universe, the time span between 1999 and 2006 is on
>the order of 20 years, which seems to be a factor of nearly
>3 over what it is in my universe (either that, or it's not
>2006 where you are, but rather 2019...).
>

<sarcasm>That explains why Solaris is so much better.</sarcasm>

But when Linux gets to 2019, it will rule compared to the current
Solaris 2019.



Jan Engelhardt
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