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From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Linux vs. BSD (NOT a religious question!)
Date: 21 May 1995 21:29:11 GMT
Organization: HeadCandy Associates... Sweets for the lobes.
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In-reply-to: nate@trout.sri.MT.net's message of 18 May 1995 17:30:58 GMT
In article <3pg08i$qdg@helena.MT.net> nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) writes:
No offense intended, but why do you consider NetBSD a more widely used
OS vs. FreeBSD?
[...]
I'm in total agreement that NetBSD runs on more platforms than FreeBSD,
but *most* of those platforms (not all by any means) are for older
legacy hardware that is not used much anymore, hence one of the reasons
NetBSD is the perfect OS for them. Putting NetBSD on this older
hardware breaths new life into it.
This is exactly what I meant. It would be foolish to say that there
are more users of NetBSD than FreeBSD. On the other hand, NetBSD is
more widely ported, and not all of it is legacy hardware (i.e. DEC
Alpha). The Alpha port, in fact, put a lot of extra cleanup in the
port, since obscure things had to be fixed to work properly on true
64-bit hardware. Hence, my statement.
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Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com
--< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >--
NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac, Amiga, HP300, Sun3, Sun4, PC532,
DEC pmax (MIPS R2k/3k), DEC/AXP (Alpha)
NetBSD ports in progress: VAX and others...
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