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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!library.ucla.edu!agate!nickkral 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 Lines: 32 Message-ID: <4k6gt3$1et@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <4issad$h1o@nadine.teleport.com> <4jsua0$6oc@dyson.iquest.net> <4jtet8$on2@agate.berkeley.edu> <4k0m87$7vi@dyson.iquest.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: america.cs.berkeley.edu 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 I am saying that the development tools that FreeBSD uses are going to become out of date, harder to maintain, and, eventually, the core team of FreeBSD will be forced to upgrade to ELF.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