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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
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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
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