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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!uhog.mit.edu!uw-beaver!news.u.washington.edu!netnews1.nwnet.net!netnews10.nwnet.net!nwnet.net!not-for-mail 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 Lines: 13 Message-ID: <4hqdjn$651@olympus.nwnet.net> References: <4h6d2o$581@hermes.cair.du.edu> <obg.825701969@nada.kth.se> <russ-0503960803260001@seismo.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: aad@nwnet.net NNTP-Posting-Host: olympus.nwnet.net >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.