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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Shared libraries (was: FreeBSD vs. Linux???)
Date: 18 Feb 1994 21:36:40 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  MT
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In article <2jnogq$ocu@rhino.cis.vutbr.cz>,
Jan Kasprzak <kas@varda.ics.muni.cs> wrote:
>	Then I installed Linux. On the same disk space, where
>NetBSD leaves only 1 Meg free (without X, of course) I have
>now Linux with XFree86, OpenLook, etc.
...

>(My disk space is ~75 M for UNIX, the rest (55M) for MS-DOG).
>If you are running out of disk space, you shoud install Linux.
>If you are fast and big machines, I thing *BSD and Linux
>are pretty equal.

This will not be the case with the next release of FreeBSD since it now
also has shared libraries plus is has all the great networking code and
a nicely organized source tree.

>>Not yet. Both *BSD version have not made a public release of their
>>version with shlib support in it, though FreeBSD is expecting to release
>>version 1.1 in early March which will have shlibs as one of the many new
>>features.
>
>>>(If so, I might as well join the Linux community...)
>
>>Why do you say that?  The same reason that brought you to use BSD is still
>>valid, is it not?
>
>	Definitely no. (see the above).

Huh?  Since shlibs are the only reason that you bring up above and that is
(will be) not an issue anymore what reason is there?


Nate
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