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From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux
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Date: Thu, 7 Apr 1994 21:05:31 GMT
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In article <restrugoCnvuE7.EHo@netcom.com> restrugo@netcom.com (Ramiro Estrugo) writes:
>
>Hi flammers:
>
>   Is there anything that linux can do and FreeBSD or 386BSD cannot or
>vise-versa ???  
>
>ramiro

Linux can not run vat :) The reason mostly because Van Jacobson refuses
to release the source for vat. What is vat ? Well, is a voice
audio conferencing tool used to broadcast ietf meetings world-wide and
other happy broadcasters such as Nasa, etc..

There is also nv for broadcasting and receiving video -- the source
is available however the *bsd camps don't have a driver for 
a frame grabber. I began placing a few calls to get a
high performance frame grabber 8)


On the linux side -- idt is working on a port of DOOM. 
Doom per-say is just an introduction to *real-time* 
virtual-reality for the PCs. Strictly speaking is not true 
virtual reality;however, Doom can be quite addictive, scary
and a whole lot of fun listening to it with 3d sound coming
out of Gravis Ultrasound card.

	Ala Doom: if you come back I will roast you!

	Amancio

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