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From: curt@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: DEBATE: BSD vs. Linux
Date: 6 Sep 1995 03:30:04 GMT
Organization: Internet Portal Services, Ltd.
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In article <42gnkt$9ji@klaava.helsinki.fi>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@cc.Helsinki.FI> wrote:

>In article <42dp79$bv5@wolfe.wimsey.com>,
>Curt Sampson <curt@cynic.portal.ca> wrote:

>>Or in other words, can I cross compile from a platform where I also
>>compile native systems for that platform?

>This is getting ridiculous.  In a word (or three): "Who really cares?"

I do. If my personal workstation is a nice fast Alpha, and I've
also got to maintain a handful of i386 workstations and a PowerPC
or two, I'd like to be able to do all my compilation on my Alpha.
Perhaps there aren't any Linux users out there who need to maintain
multiplatform environments.

cjs
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