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From: rsanders@mindspring.com (Robert Sanders)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux's primitive C library (was Re: 386BSD Remarkable?)
Date: 28 Aug 1994 21:29:35 GMT
Organization: MindSpring Enterprises, Inc.
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In-reply-to: mhw@cs.brown.edu's message of Sat, 27 Aug 1994 17:58:07 GMT

On Sat, 27 Aug 1994 17:58:07 GMT, mhw@cs.brown.edu (Mark Weaver) said:

> and the networking is ALMOST there.  My only beef with it is that
> the C library is primitive compared to NetBSD.

I haven't used or developed under NetBSD, and I actually do very
little of my programming in C nowadays, so I have to ask: what's
primitive about Linux's C library?

  -- Robert