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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:30949 comp.os.386bsd.questions:999 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!convex!darwin.sura.net!bogus.sura.net!howland.reston.ans.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!smurf.sub.org!flatlin!pilhuhn!snert.ka.sub.org!hwr From: hwr@snert.ka.sub.org (Heiko W.Rupp) Subject: Re: 386bsd, linux: which runs more out of the box? References: <1993Mar23.085058.13670@serval.net.wsu.edu>> <CGD.93Mar23030821@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <hwr.732890376@snert.ka.sub.org> <1993Mar23.224803.2656@kf8nh.wariat.org> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1993 09:22:08 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: snert.ka.sub.org Organization: The Home of the Pilhuhn Sender: news@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org (Das Newssystem auf pilhuhn) Message-ID: <hwr.732964928@snert.ka.sub.org> Lines: 19 bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) writes: >In article <hwr.732890376@snert.ka.sub.org> hwr@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org writes: >>Hm, that's partly right. Taylor-UUCP and nn just compiles fine and easy. >>Elm on the contrary is real work to get it running well. >Every time I've seen a new version of Elm come out it's followed by a rash of >postings of patches to make it run under XXX. I'm not sure I consider that >"portable".... It isn't portable at all. Even on stable running systems (NeXT 3.0) it requires lot of work. The Problem is, that I'm not aware of a replacement, which does its job as good as it does. -- Heiko W.Rupp Gerwigstr.5 7500 Kh'e 1 hwr@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org +49 721 693642 In Africa some of the native tribes have a custom of beating the ground with clubs and uttering spine chilling cries. Anthropologists call this a form of primitive self-expression. In America we call it golf.