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From: Alair Pereira do Lago <alair@ime.usp.br>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
Date: 05 Feb 1997 11:26:15 -0200
Organization: Math. Institute, Univ. of Sao Paulo, Brazil
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craig@gnofn.org (Craig Johnston) writes:

> FreeBSD runs on x86.  Linux runs on x86 and Alpha and maybe some
> others.

The others are, mk6800 (Amiga+atari at least), Power PC, Sparc. Perhaps
others.  You should probably look at www.linux.org.  RedHat have distributions
for intel, sparc and alpha.  I do not know much on *BSD.  Does any one know if
they support SMP?

>  NetBSD runs on: Alpha, Amiga, Atari(!), HP 9000/300, x86,
> 68k mac, PowerPC, Sparc, Sun 3, and VAX, to name a few more
> recognizeable ones.

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Alair Pereira do Lago  <alair@ime.usp.br> <http://www.ime.usp.br/~alair>
Computer Science Department -- Universidade de S~ao Paulo -- Brazil