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From: bmeyer@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
Date: 10 Feb 1997 00:51:22 +1100
Organization: This is innd taking over...
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craig@gnofn.org (Craig Johnston) writes:
>We'll go through it one more time: FreeBSD -- one OS, one distribution,
>no alpha support. NetBSD -- ANOTHER OS, one distribution (modulo
>machine-specific stuff), many platforms. Linux, a kernel, many
>distributions, support of a couple of platforms, more if you count stuff
>that doesn't work yet.
Hmmm --- i386, ALPHA, SPARC and 680x0 are all rock solid. That's two couples,
in my counting. Plus MIPS and PowerPC supposed to be quite working, though
maybe not supporting all hardware. What's left?
Bernie
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