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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.help:9041 comp.os.386bsd.questions:6927 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!cf-cm!cybaswan!iiitac From: iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox) Subject: Re: SUMMARY: FreeBSD vs. Linux Message-ID: <1993Nov16.172813.18984@swan.pyr> Organization: Swansea University College References: <CGC6nH.J08@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <2btv9t$4nb@news.cs.tulane.edu> <2bui0j$blb@fw.novatel.ca> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1993 17:28:13 GMT Lines: 21 In article <2bui0j$blb@fw.novatel.ca> hpeyerl@novatel.ca (Herb Peyerl) writes: > >I don't know about FreeBSD but there's things I can do with NetBSD that >can't be done with Linux. The relevance of which is going to be different >for everyone: > <List of machines removed> >Run Sun-OS binaries. Interesting - SunOS or Solaris - and I assume only on a sun running netbsd. Also what percentage of SunOS - just the bits NetBSD supports ? >Run real shared libraries. Pardon .. Pray how are the Linux shared libraries not real, they seem to be dynamically linked, bound at run time, loaded by a dynamically linked loader and every other feature I know of.. >(And some other things I can't remember now :-> ) Like not running DOS emulations or a fair %age of IBSC2 compliant binaries. 8-) ^-- no flames please Alan iiitac@pyr.swan.ac.uk