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From: abrown@course1.harvard.edu (Aaron Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: DEBATE:  BSD vs. Linux
Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Date: 2 Sep 1995 02:08:28 GMT
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Jason R. Thorpe (thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov) wrote:
: In article <425s8h$ah1@beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov>,
: Jason Garman <garman@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote:

: >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...

: Actually ... one more thing to add ... you say that Sparc/Linux and
: Alpha/Linux are `actively being worked on'.  Well, NetBSD's Sparc
: and Alpha ports are also `actively being worked on', and already
: _work_ :-)  Indeed, NetBSD 1.0 shipped with a fully-working Sun 4c port, and
: the next release will support a fair number of the older Sun 4 systems.

Not to mention the Sun4m series, also being actively worked on for
NetBSD. NetBSD on a SPARCstation 20... very nice indeed ;-).

--Aaron

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Aaron B. Brown
Harvard University
abrown@eecs.harvard.edu
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~abrown