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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!junkie.gnofn.org!not-for-mail From: craig@gnofn.org (Craig Johnston) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: 5 Feb 1997 02:58:34 -0600 Organization: Greater New Orleans Freenet Lines: 37 Message-ID: <5d9i3q$61h@junkie.gnofn.org> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <slrn5fejrn.353.bet@onyx.interactive.net> <5d8f4p$jto@junkie.gnofn.org> <5d94nk$p9n@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: junkie.gnofn.org Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:82638 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2307 comp.os.linux.misc:156533 In article <5d94nk$p9n@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com>, Rajat Datta <rajat@ix.netcom.com> wrote: >On 4 Feb 1997 17:01:45 -0600, Craig Johnston <craig@gnofn.org> wrote: >> >>Oh, BTW, you want NetBSD if you want to run on an Alpha. >> > >I won't contribute more noise to the Linux vs. BSD discussion, but I have Or maybe he will after all... >to point out that after casting the usual aspersions on Linux about having >more than one distribution, and FreeBSD having only one, you make the >recommendation that you must switch to a totally different BSD merely >because of different hardware. Yes, the implication was that FreeBSD does not run on Alphas. I'll bet you went to a gifted school. FreeBSD runs on x86. Linux runs on x86 and Alpha and maybe some others. NetBSD runs on: Alpha, Amiga, Atari(!), HP 9000/300, x86, 68k mac, PowerPC, Sparc, Sun 3, and VAX, to name a few more recognizeable ones. If multiplatform support is the metric, NetBSD beats the living feces out of both Linux and FreeBSD, neither of which require a colon. In fact, I think NetBSD wins just because you can run the same OS on an Atari and a VAX. >By the way, Linux runs on Alpha. You can run RedHat 4.0 on i386, or >RedHat 4.0 on Alpha. Yes, we know. I think that was post before mine in the thread you've been following so attentively. >Oh well!