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From: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet)
Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux
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Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
References: <1994Mar18.084355.19503@atlas.com> <CMzw69.92K@tower.nullnet.fi> <Cn1yJz.LHI@hippo.ru.ac.za> <1994Mar28.120648.5899@atlas.com> <2n8laa$668@lace.Colorado.EDU>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1994 12:33:15 GMT
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In <2n8laa$668@lace.Colorado.EDU> atk@agua (Alan Krantz) writes:
>As I see it the major difference (from a user impact perspective) is that
>FreeBSD has better network code and Linux has shared libraries. Give FreeBSD
>shared libraries and I would probably pick it over Linux...
(c.o.3.m has seen a lot of discussions ?flamage? re shlibs, so at the
risk of making myself a lightning rod:)
Both *BSD in their -current flavour have Sun-style shared libraries
(written by Paul Kranenburg), and these shlibs are available in
FreeBSD-1.1BETA.
Geoff.
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