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From: robert@athena (Robert Brockway)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: DEBATE: BSD vs. Linux
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Date: 10 Sep 1995 09:33:57 GMT
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Michael L. VanLoon (michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com) wrote:
: In article <425s8h$ah1@beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov> garman@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jason Garman) writes:
: 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.
Not true.
: 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
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: of their source trees is specific to the port in question --
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: everything else is built from the architecture-independent main
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: branch.
^^^^^^
You just described the way the Linux source tree is arranged. Please check
facts before posting. This is, after all, the most logical way of arranging
the source tree.
: 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.
Why then is it used in this capacity all over the Internet? Face it,
Linux FreeBSD and NetBSD are all capable systems. All this ill-informed
talk is useless. If you familiar with BSD as many are then *BSD is obviously
the choice, if your not, go for whatever feels right . My original
choice came down to which system ran the Dos Emulator. At the time the only
one was Linux, so there you go.
-Robert
--Robert Brockway, email: ec531667@student.uq.edu.au
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