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From: cgd@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: 386bsd, linux: which runs more out of the box?
Date: 23 Mar 93 03:08:21
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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In-reply-to: hlu@luke.eecs.wsu.edu's message of Tue, 23 Mar 93 08:50:58 GMT
In article <1993Mar23.085058.13670@serval.net.wsu.edu> hlu@luke.eecs.wsu.edu (HJ Lu) writes:
>Linux can do POSIX, SYSV and most of BSD.
however, consider this:
for a while, the slogan went: "all the world's a vax (running BSD)".
then, it more or less became: "all the world's a sun (running a
BSD-derivative, if SunOS < 5.0)."
so 386bsd will do most of posix, and basically all of BSD stuff.
and i think that, at this stage of the game, except for GNU software
(which tends to be fine-tuned per platform), you'll end up
being able to compile things just as, if not more easily
under 386bsd...
and i'm not sure the problems you had w/386bsd's strtod, but they
might be fixed now... (but i'm not a libc hacker, so... 8-)
chris
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