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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
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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