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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
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Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1993 04:36:22 GMT
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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...
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