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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!psinntp!psinntp!psinntp!spunky.RedBrick.COM!nntp.et.byu.edu!cwis.isu.edu!news.cc.utah.edu!park.uvsc.edu!usenet From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux Date: 4 Apr 1996 02:35:45 GMT Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4jvci1$nh4@park.uvsc.edu> References: <4issad$h1o@nadine.teleport.com> <Pine.PMDF.3.91.960324150948.9390A-100000@PLAINS.UWYO.EDU> <4jejjt$cdb@park.uvsc.edu> <315E0F1A.4E3FB53D@lucon.org> <4jna9s$f34@mark.ucdavis.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: hecate.artisoft.com obrien@Nuxi.com (David E. O'Brien) wrote: ] H.J. Lu (hjl@lucon.org) wrote: ] : ] : If FreeBSD ever went 100% ELF, I might give it a try. But ] : I am not sure if I am qualified as metioned above and I ] : may not be neutral :-). ] ] What is that that an ELF'ed FreeBSD would give you, that it doesn't already ] give you today??? ] ] Just wondering. Besides a nice technology base for future developement that just can't be done with a.out, but no immediate functional differences? H.J. Lu as a non-neutral comparison poster, if the above is true. 8-) Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.