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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!onramp.arc.nasa.gov!usenet From: lwilliam@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Tom) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.setup Subject: Re: Linux or BSD? Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 07:24:13 GMT Organization: Lone Tree Works Lines: 11 Message-ID: <4kd3ci$9eu@onramp.arc.nasa.gov> References: <4jprsf$lo9@classic.eng.octel.com> <4kcofg$55p@onramp.arc.nasa.gov> Reply-To: lwilliam@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov NNTP-Posting-Host: arc-tac2-slip5.nsi.nasa.gov X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2912 comp.os.linux.development.system:21152 comp.os.linux.setup:50104 lwilliam@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Tom) wrote: >I'm currently fetching >NetBSD for my own evaluations. Sorry for following up to my own post, but I've decided not to get NetBSD, nor FreeBSD, because they don't support my tape drive. Linux, on the other hand, does support ftape drives (QIC-40 and QIC-80, with or without a card), and NetBSD's install text does indicate that the "ongoing Linux work should prove useful in the future."