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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.help:8734 comp.os.386bsd.questions:6852 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!caen!malgudi.oar.net!wariat.org!kf8nh!bsa From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) Subject: Re: SUMMARY: FreeBSD vs. Linux References: <2brq1b$a8j@news.ysu.edu> <2bui0j$blb@fw.novatel.ca> <CGCroz.B6r@kithrup.com> <2c1nkr$nkg@jake.esu.edu> Organization: Brandon's Linux box and AmPR node, Mentor, OH Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1993 14:50:23 GMT Message-ID: <1993Nov14.145023.8624@kf8nh.wariat.org> Lines: 19 In article <2c1nkr$nkg@jake.esu.edu> kender@esu.edu writes: >Slaving away in a dark room, sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan) produced: >>There are, I believe, both mac and amiga ports of linux happening. > >Well, at least an Amiga port - not sure about the mac port though (besides, >most of the GNU utilities would probably not get ported to the mac, seeing >their general attitude towards apple ;), but the porting is going VERY slowly The GNU attitude toward Apple is that they won't stop anyone from porting GNU utilities, but they won't help and won't fold any necessary patches into their source tree. Many GNU utilities *have* been ported to A/UX from the reports I've heard. (...and the results are better than with the native A/UX utilities. Why am I not surprised? :-) ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery kf8nh@kf8nh.ampr.org bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org "MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years of careful development." ---dmeggins@aix1.uottawa.ca