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From: sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan)
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: FreeBSD vs. Linux
Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
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Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1993 00:21:57 GMT
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In article <2bui0j$blb@fw.novatel.ca> hpeyerl@novatel.ca (Herb Peyerl) writes:
>Run it on a Mac
>Run it on an Amiga

There are, I believe, both mac and amiga ports of linux happening.

>Run real shared libraries.

Dynamicly-linked shared libraries were announced for testing for linux
before they were announced for *bsd.  If I remember correctly, from looking
at it, it was also less of a hack, and used ELF instead of a.out.  (Even
COFF would be better than a.out for shared libraries, sheesh.)