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From: thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov (Jason R. Thorpe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: DEBATE:  BSD vs. Linux
Date: 1 Sep 1995 18:28:02 GMT
Organization: Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation Project - NASA Ames
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In article <425s8h$ah1@beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov>,
Jason Garman <garman@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote:

>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...

Actually ... one more thing to add ... you say that Sparc/Linux and
Alpha/Linux are `actively being worked on'.  Well, NetBSD's Sparc
and Alpha ports are also `actively being worked on', and already
_work_ :-)  Indeed, NetBSD 1.0 shipped with a fully-working Sun 4c port, and
the next release will support a fair number of the older Sun 4 systems.

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