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From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Running FreeBSD and Linux on same machine?
Date: 28 Nov 1995 00:32:04 GMT
Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA
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In article <49csi3$1qo@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie>,
Timothy Murphy <tim@maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
>On this topic,
:I don't understand why neither Linux nor FreeBSD
:seem to have organised a common file system --
:is it jealousy, or is there some reason why
:it is harder to organise things so that 
:one can mount a FreeBSD file system under Linux
:than to do the same for a DOS file system?

until just recently there was no way of doing this..
now under -current you can moutn a linux filesystem and run the (non elf)
executables!.

julian
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