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From: gclarkii@main.gbdata.com (Gary Clark II)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux
Date: 8 Apr 1996 15:40:56 -0500
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In article <3164BF6C.4896F196@lucon.org>, H.J. Lu <hjl@lucon.org> wrote:
>Gary Clark II wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> >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
>
>The next GNU/Linux binutils will support FreeBSD/ELF.
Having binutils that do ELF under FreeBSD does no good if the kernel
does not support it.  Thats what I meant by announce the addition of
ELF, kernel support.

>
>> 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:
>
>ftp.cs.helsinki.fi runs Linux. It is the Linux home ftp
>site for the Linux kernel stuff.
Ok, like I said these were the ones of knew of.  It was not listed on the
web page for distributions on www.linux.org.  Also, is the place to find
all the latest and greatest linux kernel patches?  I've had people ask me:)

>
>
>H.J.


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