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From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: DEBATE: BSD vs. Linux
Date: 02 Sep 1995 06:54:58 GMT
Organization: HeadCandy Associates... Sweets for the lobes.
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Message-ID: <MICHAELV.95Sep1235458@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>
References: <4233kp$t8p@hilly.apci.net> <425a9b$89r@felix.junction.net>
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In-reply-to: garman@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov's message of 31 Aug 1995 22:47:45 -0400
Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:955 comp.os.linux.advocacy:19656
In article <425s8h$ah1@beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov> garman@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jason Garman) writes:
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...
And each one has a different, twisted maze of a source tree.
NetBSD/Alpha, NetBSD/Sparc, NetBSD/Sun68k, etc. are not half-assed
prototype ports. These are fully-functional NetBSD ports, every bit
as usable as the Intel port. And, only the smallest portions of each
of their source trees is specific to the port in question --
everything else is built from the architecture-independent main
branch.
Linux may be the ultimate hackware, and because of that, a very
captivating system for hackers, but it, as always in the past, is not
quite up to the task of industrial-strength high-volume server.
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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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