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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.help:8694 comp.os.386bsd.questions:6845 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.kei.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!ai-lab!life.ai.mit.edu!mycroft From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: SUMMARY: FreeBSD vs. Linux Date: 14 Nov 1993 05:05:53 GMT Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab Lines: 19 Message-ID: <MYCROFT.93Nov14000553@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <2btv9t$4nb@news.cs.tulane.edu> <2bui0j$blb@fw.novatel.ca> <2butta$jqc@news.cs.tulane.edu> <CGFCr0.F84@boulder.parcplace.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: duality.ai.mit.edu In-reply-to: imp@boulder.parcplace.com's message of Sat, 13 Nov 1993 09:52:11 GMT In article <CGFCr0.F84@boulder.parcplace.com> imp@boulder.parcplace.com (Warner Losh) writes: In article <2butta$jqc@news.cs.tulane.edu> cajho@uno.edu writes: Sun-OS binaries? Please elaborate...will this allow access to much commercial software? If you have a Sun to run them on. Not quite. Rumor has it that the person who did the Amiga port of NetBSD, Markus Wild, can run SunOS 68k programs on his Amiga now. The *BSD shared library support that I've seen is much more dynamic. Which, FYI, I've had running on my NetBSD development box (a puny 386 with not enough memory) for 9 days without a hitch.