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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!metro!metro!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!swrinde!news.uh.edu!lurch.sccsi.com!news.sccsi.com!not-for-mail From: gclarkii@main.gbdata.com (Gary Clark II) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux Date: 2 Apr 1996 21:09:38 -0600 Organization: none Lines: 50 Message-ID: <4jsq5i$5ko@main.gbdata.com> References: <4issad$h1o@nadine.teleport.com> <315E0F1A.4E3FB53D@lucon.org> <Pine.LNX.3.91.960401105810.31921A-100000@gallup.cia-g.com> <4jqpn8$euv@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: tty14.com3.houston.net Hello, In article <4jqpn8$euv@agate.berkeley.edu>, Nick Kralevich <nickkral@america.CS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote: >In article <Pine.LNX.3.91.960401105810.31921A-100000@gallup.cia-g.com>, >Stephen Fisher <lithium@cia-g.com> wrote: > >>Why not sooner? If ELF was so great then FreeBSD would be switching >>_right now_. > >A number of *BSD developers have expressed their interest in switching >over to an ELF format. Ok who? When sos and sef announced the addition of ELF into FreeBSD I saw nothing like this. Just some questions here and there. I'm not sure about NetBSD or OpenBSD as I don't read thier mailing lists, so there might be a movement there to go ELF vice A.OUT. --SNIP-- >FreeBSD is just behind the times and backwards. Well for a behind the times and backwards OS, FreeBSD sure seems to be in use at a large number of MAJOR internet sites... Unrelated question: Ok Nick, one question for you that I've been wanting to ask a Linux person for a long time. Why is that none of the major distribution sites for Linux run Linux? Here are the sites that I know of: Name: Sunsite.unc.edu OS: SysVr4 Distribution: MCC and TAMU Name: TSX-11.mit.edu OS: OSF/1 Distribution: SLS and Debian Name: ftp.CDROM.com OS: FreeBSD Distribution: Slackware Name: ftp.funet.fi OS: Dec Unix Distribution: Major software archive I know that there are others but these seem to the major sites as listed by www.linux.org. NOTE: This is a question to Nick. If you want to send mail fine. > >Take care, >-- Nick Kralevich > nickkral@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu -- Gary Clark II (N5VMF) | I speak only for myself and "maybe" my company gclarkii@GBData.COM | Member of the FreeBSD Doc Team Providing Internet and ISP startups mail info@GBData.COM for information FreeBSD FAQ at ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/docs/freebsd-faq.ascii