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From: Phil Bellalouna <phil@rust.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: DEBATE: BSD vs. Linux
Date: 10 Sep 1995 20:47:55 GMT
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Apologies for not replying to the original poster... I missed his full
message.
Michael L. VanLoon (michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com) wrote:
: 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.
^^^^^^
You know, I am amazed. For years, commercial Unix vendors pounded on
each other about how much better their latest tweak (that made them
incompatible with the rest of the *nix world) and pounded on each other
with binary incompatibility etc. while MS chuckled and made them largely
irrelevant. We live in a world that now has at least 2 good free Unix
clones (better than any version I ever bought) and all some people can
do is sling the same old shit (i.e. bashing the other versions). If you
want to hurt the acceptance of both versions, keep it up.
Phil