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From: hp@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Peter Holzer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: BSD vs. Linux
Date: 9 Mar 1994 19:14:18 GMT
Organization: Technical University, Vienna, Dept. for Realtime Systems, AUSTRIA
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david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J Camp) writes:

>What are the relative merits of NetBSD vs. Linux?  Is either
>technically superior?  I suppose BSD is more portable.  How difficult
>is would it be to port the Linux utilities to BSD?  -David-

I think most of the Linux utilities are from GNU, so they have been
running on BSD long before Linux did exist.

	hp
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