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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.help:8691 comp.os.386bsd.questions:6843 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!world!entropy From: entropy@world.std.com (Lawrence Foard) Subject: Re: SUMMARY: FreeBSD vs. Linux Message-ID: <CGGssM.AG0@world.std.com> Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA References: <2brq1b$a8j@news.ysu.edu> <CGC6nH.J08@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <2btv9t$4nb@news.cs.tulane.edu> <2bui0j$blb@fw.novatel.ca> Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1993 04:36:22 GMT Lines: 38 In article <2bui0j$blb@fw.novatel.ca>, Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@novatel.ca> wrote: >cajho@uno.edu wrote: > >I don't know about FreeBSD but there's things I can do with NetBSD that >can't be done with Linux. The relevance of which is going to be different >for everyone: > >Run it on a Mac why? :) >Run it on an Amiga Well maybe... >Run it on an hp300 blech. >Run it on a pc532 whats that? >Run it on a Sparc >(plus all the other platforms that are coming) I've never seen an OSless sun system? >Run Sun-OS binaries. >Run real shared libraries. Linux has shared libraries, I don't know how they would be "unreal" since they are shared between all processes... -- ------ Legalize: >--<o | If we where meant to hack God would . \ / :-)-~ o>--< | have given us jacks. . . \ / You are ~1,000,000,000,000,000 .1ms NAND gates have a nice day. . . . \/ The true theory of everything will run on a finite turing machine. . . .