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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
Date: 1 Feb 1997 17:53:38 GMT
Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI
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In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.970201040446.16129A-100000@ux8.cso.uiuc.edu>,
Kueh, Anthony <kueh@students.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> Just for all those BSD advocates out there.. if BSD is so much more 
> superior than Linux, how come someone bothered to make Linux binaries 
> executable on FreeBSD?

Same reason someone bothered to make DOS binaries executable on Linux.
-- 

             The Reverend Peter da Silva, ULC, COQO, BOFH.

                  Har du kramat din varg, idag? `-_-'