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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
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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.

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