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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!novia!news.inc.net!news From: mattv@neworder.e-net.com (Matthew Vandergrift) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Date: 27 Nov 1995 02:27:10 GMT Organization: Internet Connect, Inc. The Wisconsin ISP 414-476-4266 http://www.inc.net Lines: 13 Message-ID: <49b7lu$oja@news.inc.net> References: <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> <poulosioDIFAnC.ECw@netcom.com> <48vcmk$j0v@ionews.io.org> <DIMBIt.G1F@eskimo.com> <498bio$2ft@galaxy.ucr.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: neworder.e-net.com X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:28871 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:9660 comp.unix.advocacy:11595 comp.unix.misc:19753 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:8908 In article <498bio$2ft@galaxy.ucr.edu>, js@dostoevsky.ucr.edu (Joe Sloan) writes: >Interesting you should say that - I recently learned of the Linux >emulator for FreeBSD, as well as the planned ext2fs support - I also >hear rumors of ufs support for Linux. Linux & FreeBSD already use much >of the same software, e.g. the gnu toolset, XFree86, Voxware sound drivers... Then again, we run GNUs toolsets on our SunOS machines and IRIX based SGIs too ;). Seems like the GNU products are more effiecient, have less limits, and still cost a whole lot less :). - Matt