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From: tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Benifts of NetBSD over Ultrix 4.0?
Date: 8 Mar 1996 20:12:08 -0500
Organization: Panix
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Message-ID: <4hqlt8$d2l@panix2.panix.com>
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Reply-To: tls@rek.tjls.com
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In article <4hqdjn$651@olympus.nwnet.net>,
Anthony D'Atri <aad@nwnet.net> wrote:
>>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
When we get an ELF dynamic loader, this will change. Oddly enough, we still
have a port which uses ECOFF, but it's not the pmax port... :-)
>can get it running, is that it doesn't have the silly enforced 2-user default
>license that Ultrix does.
Of course, neither does Ultrix, if you replace /bin/login. :-)
[ note to sycophantic DEC weenies: Note the word "enforced" above before you
flame me. I used to work for DEC; believe me, I've heard it before. ]
--
Thor Lancelot Simon tls@rek.tjls.com
love is an angel disguised as lust