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From: cjs@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
Date: 5 Feb 1997 11:47:09 -0800
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In article <KETIL-ytqiv47v56j.fsf@pinro.imr.no>,
Ketil Z Malde <ketil@imr.no> wrote:
>craig@gnofn.org (Craig Johnston) writes:
>
>``Maybe some others'' should be read to include (admittedly with varying
>degrees of stability):
I take all of these sorts of claims from Linux users with a largish
grain of salt now. The Linux/MIPS FAQ states, for example, that
the DECStation is one of the supported platforms. Well, it stably
supports printing the BogoMips value, at any rate. Perhaps one day
it will get farther through the boot process.
Someone once pointed out to me that the ports of Linux that do work
well are almost all PC-hardware machines with different processors
(Alpha, excepting turbochannel machines, of course, and ARC--the
notable exception here is Sparc). This sort of attitude is presumably
why we get Linux/Alpha blatently ignoring whatever the monitor says
the console is (the serial port, in my case) and just using a VGA
card.
FreeBSD: turning PCs into workstations.
Linux: turning workstations in to PCs.
cjs
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