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From: mattv@neworder.e-net.com (Matthew Vandergrift)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit
Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD
Date: 27 Nov 1995 02:27:10 GMT
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In article <498bio$2ft@galaxy.ucr.edu>,
	js@dostoevsky.ucr.edu (Joe Sloan) writes:

>Interesting you should say that - I recently learned of the Linux
>emulator for FreeBSD, as well as the planned ext2fs support - I also
>hear rumors of ufs support for Linux. Linux & FreeBSD already use much 
>of the same software, e.g. the gnu toolset, XFree86, Voxware sound drivers...

Then again, we run GNUs toolsets on our SunOS machines and IRIX based SGIs
too ;).  Seems like the GNU products are more effiecient, have less limits,
and still cost a whole lot less :).

 - Matt