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From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: FreeBSD vs. Linux
Date: 11 Nov 1993 09:52:26 GMT
Organization: Lotus Development Ireland
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In-reply-to: ap713@yfn.ysu.edu's message of 10 Nov 1993 22:30:02 GMT

In article <2brq1b$a8j@news.ysu.edu> ap713@yfn.ysu.edu (Christopher L. Mikkelson) writes:

	   NetBSD also now has Sun style Pic-based shared libraires, which
	   freeBSD lacks.  Linux has some scary jump table based shared
	   lib.s

Not for long - I'm running my FreeBSD 1.0 system with everything
except X shared at the moment; we're not too far behind NetBSD in
shared libs at this moment and hope to do 1.1 as a full shared-lib
enabled release.

				Jordan
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(Jordan K. Hubbard)  jkh@violet.berkeley.edu, jkh@al.org, jkh@whisker.lotus.ie

I do not speak for Lotus, nor am I even a Lotus employee.  I am an independent
contractor.