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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Questions about Linux vs. FreeBSD...
Date: 16 Dec 1995 05:00:47 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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cbbrown@io.org (Christopher B. Browne) wrote:
] The downside to FreeBSD at this point is that a lot of the commercial
] efforts have been going into Linux. If I call the Wingz folks, they
] know about Linux. Likewise for Angoss. Likewise for quite a
] variety of commercial providers that have been springing up. Commercial
] products seem less available for FreeBSD, which is somewhat unfortunate.
That's why FreeBSD decided to support Linux as a foreign ABI: so it
can have all of the software native for it, PLUS all of the software
native for Linux.
Including NetScape with JAVA, Executor, Wingz, WordPerfect, etc.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.