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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.nacamar.de!wuff.mayn.de!wuff.franken.de!altair.franken.de!token From: token@altair.franken.de (Matthias Buelow) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc Subject: Re: no such thing as a "general user community" Date: 3 Apr 1997 00:27:03 GMT Organization: void * Lines: 22 Message-ID: <5hutgn$a4l$1@wuff.mayn.de> References: <331BB7DD.28EC@net5.net> <5hplcv$6lf@fido.asd.sgi.com> <5htaev$fv7$1@moon> <5huqll$h73$1@nef.ens.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: altair.franken.de X-No-Archive: yes Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38320 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6557 comp.sys.sgi.misc:29624 In article <5huqll$h73$1@nef.ens.fr>, Roger Espel Llima <espel@drakkar.ens.fr> wrote: >your programs "to RedHat, and then to Debian"; they use strictly the >same kernel and libraries (with the odd exception, like Linux-FT's POSIX >extensions) and they can run exactly the same binaries. I can also run NetBSD and OpenBSD i386 binaries on my FreeBSD system. I can also run Linux and SCO and BSDi BSD/OS binaries. So far for compatibility. >couldn't care less if most PC's use some microslothz OS, as long as I >have a choice and there is a significant community behind that choice, >which is the case already now with Linux, and each of the BSDs. Exactly. -- --token ``Good morning, doctors. I have taken the liberty of removing Windows 95 from my harddrive.'' - Arthur C. Clarke, imagining the first words of HAL