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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!worldnet.att.net!ix.netcom.com!rajat From: rajat@goteborg.netcom.com (Rajat Datta) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: 5 Feb 1997 05:10:12 GMT Organization: Netcom Lines: 18 Message-ID: <5d94nk$p9n@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <slrn5feb63.93l.ralsina@ultra7.unl.edu.ar> <32F73973.167EB0E7@freebsd.org> <slrn5fejrn.353.bet@onyx.interactive.net> <5d8f4p$jto@junkie.gnofn.org> Reply-To: rajat@ix.netcom.com NNTP-Posting-Host: aus-tx9-09.ix.netcom.com X-NETCOM-Date: Tue Feb 04 11:10:12 PM CST 1997 X-Newsreader: slrn (0.8.8.4 (BETA) UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:82809 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2363 comp.os.linux.misc:156816 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 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. By the way, Linux runs on Alpha. You can run RedHat 4.0 on i386, or RedHat 4.0 on Alpha. Oh well! rajat