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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD or NetBSD
Date: 2 Dec 1995 18:54:21 GMT
Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI
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In article <49n6n7$9qc@access4.digex.net>,
David Myers <dcmyers@access4.digex.net> wrote:
> I've heard that FreeBSD supports some kind of Linux emulation mode...How
> good is it,

Good enough to run Linux DOOM! It also supports BSDI well enough to run the
BSDI version of the Netscape Commerce Server.

> and does NetBSD support this as well?

I believe it was originally NetBSD code.

> I am preparing to buy a
> Pentium system for UNIX, and would much rather stay with BSD, but Linux
> seems to have all the support.  And, does either BSD support both the ELF
> and a.out Linux executable formats?

Currently a.out only. ELF is being worked on.
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