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From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Running FreeBSD and Linux on same machine?
Date: 27 Nov 1995 17:29:39 -0000
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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On this topic,
I don't understand why neither Linux nor FreeBSD
seem to have organised a common file system --
is it jealousy, or is there some reason why
it is harder to organise things so that 
one can mount a FreeBSD file system under Linux
than to do the same for a DOS file system?


-- 
Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie
tel: +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland