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From: torvalds@cc.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: DEBATE: BSD vs. Linux
Date: 3 Sep 1995 13:49:50 +0300
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In article <4280t8$ijg@er5.rutgers.edu>,
Ken Nakata <kenn@er5.rutgers.edu> wrote:
>
>More importantly (to me, anyway), all the source files of Linux/XXX
>and Linux/YYY and ...  Linux/ZZZ are organized in a single source
>tree?  I absolutely don't want to maintain TWO ENTIRELY SEPARATE
>SOURCE TREES when I have XXX and YYY both running Linux.  With NetBSD,
>ONE SINGLE SOURCE TREE is shared by all the supported platforms.

Linux/alpha and Linux/i386 share the same source tree: you need to edit
the top-level Makefile (change ARCH=i386 to ARCH=alpha) to compile the
standard 1.3.22 kernel on the alpha. 

The other ports aren't integrated yet but we'll get there eventually (of
the others, only the 68k port is reasonably stable). 

		Linus