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From: gclarkii@main.gbdata.com (Gary Clark II)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux
Date: 2 Apr 1996 21:09:38 -0600
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Hello,


In article <4jqpn8$euv@agate.berkeley.edu>,
Nick Kralevich <nickkral@america.CS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
>In article <Pine.LNX.3.91.960401105810.31921A-100000@gallup.cia-g.com>,
>Stephen Fisher  <lithium@cia-g.com> wrote:
>
>>Why not sooner?  If ELF was so great then FreeBSD would be switching 
>>_right now_.
>
>A number of *BSD developers have expressed their interest in switching
>over to an ELF format.  
Ok who?  When sos and sef announced the addition of ELF into FreeBSD
I saw nothing like this.  Just some questions here and there.
I'm not sure about NetBSD or OpenBSD as I don't read thier mailing lists,
so there might be a movement there to go ELF vice A.OUT.

--SNIP--

>FreeBSD is just behind the times and backwards.
Well for a behind the times and backwards OS, FreeBSD sure seems to
be in use at a large number of MAJOR internet sites...  

Unrelated question:
Ok Nick, one question for you that I've been wanting to ask a Linux person
for a long time.  Why is that none of the major distribution sites for
Linux run Linux?  Here are the sites that I know of:

Name: Sunsite.unc.edu  OS: SysVr4      Distribution: MCC and TAMU
Name: TSX-11.mit.edu   OS: OSF/1       Distribution: SLS and Debian
Name: ftp.CDROM.com    OS: FreeBSD     Distribution: Slackware
Name: ftp.funet.fi     OS: Dec Unix    Distribution: Major software archive

I know that there are others but these seem to the major sites as
listed by www.linux.org.

NOTE: This is a question to Nick.  If you want to send mail fine.
>
>Take care,
>-- Nick Kralevich
>   nickkral@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu



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