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From: iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: FreeBSD vs. Linux
Message-ID: <1993Nov16.172813.18984@swan.pyr>
Organization: Swansea University College
References: <CGC6nH.J08@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <2btv9t$4nb@news.cs.tulane.edu> <2bui0j$blb@fw.novatel.ca>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1993 17:28:13 GMT
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In article <2bui0j$blb@fw.novatel.ca> hpeyerl@novatel.ca (Herb Peyerl) writes:
>
>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:
>
<List of machines removed>
>Run Sun-OS binaries.
Interesting - SunOS or Solaris  - and I assume only on a sun running netbsd.
Also what percentage of SunOS - just the bits NetBSD supports ?
>Run real shared libraries.
Pardon .. Pray how are the Linux shared libraries not real, they seem to be
dynamically linked, bound at run time, loaded by a dynamically linked loader
and every other feature I know of..
>(And some other things I can't remember now :-> )
Like not running DOS emulations or a fair %age of IBSC2 compliant binaries.
8-)
  ^-- no flames please

Alan
iiitac@pyr.swan.ac.uk