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From: aad@nwnet.net (Anthony D'Atri)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Benifts of NetBSD over Ultrix 4.0?
Date: 8 Mar 1996 14:50:31 -0800
Organization: NorthWestNet, Bellevue, WA, USA, Earth
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>I'm becoming rather enthusiastic about NetBSD -- unlike Linux, it runs 
>on the machines I actually have!  I'm taking steps to load up NetBSD on
>my pmax at work, and may run it routinely.  I see the main benefit as
>the shared library support -- the static-only libraries in Ultrix have
>always bugged me! 

NetBSD/pmax doesn't have shared libraries either.  One advantage, if one
can get it running, is that it doesn't have the silly enforced 2-user default 
license that Ultrix does.