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From: wolf@prz.tu-berlin.de (Thomas Wolfram)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: NetBSD camp reaction to OpenBSD?
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Date: 1 Dec 1995 18:04:35 GMT
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Anthony D'Atri (aad@nwnet.net) wrote:
> 
> >Why should they be? Have you counted the number of different
> >`distributions' of Linux lately?
> 
> It's something like 18, I'm told.  It's one of the reasons why I decided
> against the PC-Unix route and bought a used Sun.
> 
> >user space differences between the Net/Free/Open/whateverBSDs that
> >you do between the different Linux distributions. They can't even
> >agree on a common directory hierarchy.

They agree now.


> Or object-file format.  As I understand it, many (all?) of them don't even

No, Linux uses only two object-file formats: the "classical" a.out
and the new SVR4 compatible ELF. In fact all distributions I know of
can handle even installing software packages packed in the Slackware
package format.

> come with dump(1).


Thomas
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