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From: tls@cloud9.net (Thor Lancelot Simon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: DEBATE:  BSD vs. Linux
Date: 1 Sep 1995 10:03:46 GMT
Organization: Cloud 9 Internet, White Plains, New York, USA
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In article <425s8h$ah1@beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov>,
Jason Garman <garman@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote:
>In article <425l95$85v@cnn.nas.nasa.gov>,
>Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> wrote:
>>In article <425a9b$89r@felix.junction.net>,
>>Michael Dillon <michael@okjunc.junction.net> wrote:
>>
>>>You should stick with Linux because it works for you and you know what it 
>>>can do and how to make it do that. You should also try FreeBSD because 
>>>for some things it is better and it is good to have more than one O/S in 
>>>your bag of tricks.
>>
>>I beg to differ ... He mentioned Sun and DEC in his previous post.  While
>>he is currently not considering those platforms, he _may_ do so in the
>>future.  Why lock yourself into one platform?  NetBSD currently runs
>>extremely well on Intel-based platforms, as well as 11 others, including
>>the Sun 4/4c and DEC Alpha.  It's good to have more than one platform
>>in your bag of tricks :-)
>>
>Perhaps you've never heard of Sparc/Linux or Alpha/Linux then :-)
>Both are actively being worked on, and Alpha/Linux is slowly nearing
>an end-user release...

Yum, yum.  And just look what they did with that pagetable, too.  

I personally am a big fan of the way each architecture Linux runs on has 
a completely separate source tree.  All operating systems should work 
that way.

-- 
Thor Lancelot Simon                                               tls@cloud9.net
 
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