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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:27223 comp.os.386bsd.misc:3750 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!info!iialan From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox) Subject: Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one? Message-ID: <CxtI43.G5y@info.swan.ac.uk> Keywords: mosaic term telnet Sender: news@info.swan.ac.uk Nntp-Posting-Host: iifeak.swan.ac.uk Organization: Institute For Industrial Information Technology References: <542yTc1w165w@oasys.pc.my> <37hcr1$8b6@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <CxLD6E.Guz@bonkers.taronga.com> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 12:45:39 GMT Lines: 21 In article <CxLD6E.Guz@bonkers.taronga.com> peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <37hcr1$8b6@pdq.coe.montana.edu>, >Nate Williams <nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu> wrote: >>Nope. Ultrix is probably the last of the commercial OS that is still >>primarily BSD based (excepting BSDI's offering). However, it's being >>phased out by OSF/1, so it's a dead-end OS as far as DEC is concerned. >On the other hand I've several times pulled code out of the FreeBSD >CDROM to replace buggy software shipped with OSF/1. Go figure. Several people I know well have used bits of NetBSD to replace some unfortunate bugs in a Sun supplied operating system on the Sparc. In this case they number of files replaced was probably considerably larger 8). Alan -- ..-----------,,----------------------------,,----------------------------,, // Alan Cox // iialan@www.linux.org.uk // GW4PTS@GB7SWN.#45.GBR.EU // ``----------'`----------------------------'`----------------------------''