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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!pravda.aa.msen.com!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!gatech!news.sprintlink.net!news.cloud9.net!cloud9.net!tls From: tls@cloud9.net (Thor Lancelot Simon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: DEBATE: BSD vs. Linux Date: 1 Sep 1995 10:03:46 GMT Organization: Cloud 9 Internet, White Plains, New York, USA Lines: 33 Message-ID: <426lq2$3kr@news.cloud9.net> References: <4233kp$t8p@hilly.apci.net> <425a9b$89r@felix.junction.net> <425l95$85v@cnn.nas.nasa.gov> <425s8h$ah1@beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: cloud9.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:931 comp.os.linux.advocacy:19256 In article <425s8h$ah1@beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov>, Jason Garman <garman@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote: >In article <425l95$85v@cnn.nas.nasa.gov>, >Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> wrote: >>In article <425a9b$89r@felix.junction.net>, >>Michael Dillon <michael@okjunc.junction.net> wrote: >> >>>You should stick with Linux because it works for you and you know what it >>>can do and how to make it do that. You should also try FreeBSD because >>>for some things it is better and it is good to have more than one O/S in >>>your bag of tricks. >> >>I beg to differ ... He mentioned Sun and DEC in his previous post. While >>he is currently not considering those platforms, he _may_ do so in the >>future. Why lock yourself into one platform? NetBSD currently runs >>extremely well on Intel-based platforms, as well as 11 others, including >>the Sun 4/4c and DEC Alpha. It's good to have more than one platform >>in your bag of tricks :-) >> >Perhaps you've never heard of Sparc/Linux or Alpha/Linux then :-) >Both are actively being worked on, and Alpha/Linux is slowly nearing >an end-user release... Yum, yum. And just look what they did with that pagetable, too. I personally am a big fan of the way each architecture Linux runs on has a completely separate source tree. All operating systems should work that way. -- Thor Lancelot Simon tls@cloud9.net Don't let your mouth write no check that your tail can't cash. --Bo Diddley