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From: mandtbac@news.abo.fi (Mats Andtbacka)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD
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Date: 3 Dec 1995 17:02:35 GMT
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Jordan K. Hubbard, in <JKH.95Dec1013851@time.cdrom.com>:
>In article <49ksgl$2pit@ns4-1.CC.Lehigh.EDU> fjw2@Lehigh.EDU (FRANK JUDE WOJCIK) writes:
>>: 2) At the time of Linux 1.0.9, console hangs were prevelant, causing
>>: grief for users. The only solution was to upgrade, but there was
>>: only so far we could upgrade w/o installing a totally new Slackware and
>>: going through the same grief (ELF).
>>Hm. It's my recollection that you could upgrade pretty far (kernel wise) w/o
>>any of the utilities breaking.
>Read what he's saying again - he'd have had to go to ELF, hardly a
>"without any of the utilities breaking" scenario..
True, but he also said "at the time of 1.0.9", when ELF wasn't
anywhere nearly there yet. This makes me, for one, wonder what he's
talking about.
FWIW, he could've upgraded to a.out 1.2.x without breaking very much,
if anything at all; I've seen no console hangs on that system that I
didn't ask for (by abusing svgalib programs), and those were my fault
more than the OS's.
--
" ... got to contaminate to alleviate this loneliness
i now know the depths i reach are limitless... "
-- nin