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From: nickkral@america.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Nick Kralevich)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux
Date: 6 Apr 1996 19:32:51 GMT
Organization: Electrical Engineering Computer Science Department, University of California at Berkeley
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In article <4k0m87$7vi@dyson.iquest.net>,
Charlie Root <root@dyson.iquest.net> wrote:
>Nick, you are the one starting one of your periodic trolls, go back
>to the Linux group, at least you won't have the other "religious"

Standard *BSD argument style:  Attack the person, not the argument.
*sigh*

I am simply arguing that, as ELF compilers and development tools 
become more prominent, the development and maintance of AOUT tools
is going to slow down.  Bugs are going to get fixed slower in the AOUT
versions and maintaining a *BSD release of the tools is going to get
more complicated.

I'm not trying to argue the relative merits of AOUT vs ELF.  (Other
people have already shown the advantage of ELF over AOUT).  I am saying
that the development tools that FreeBSD uses are going to become
out of date, harder to maintain, and, eventually, the core team of
FreeBSD will be forced to upgrade to ELF.

In this respect, Linux is better suited to the future than FreeBSD.

The core team of FreeBSD will _eventually_ have to upgrade FreeBSD
to ELF, and until it does so, it is only doing it's users a disservice.

I can understand now why there are personality conflicts between the
various *BSD groups.  :-)

Take care,
-- Nick Kralevich
   nickkral@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu