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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.apfel.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-koe1.dfn.de!main.Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: 4 Mar 1997 11:26:19 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 16 Message-ID: <5fh0sr$q6a@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <32F788CE.7DA1@indy.celebration.net> <ywtvi87rgwh.fsf@math.ucsb.edu> <32F8A363.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> <ywtraiu7krv.fsf@math.ucsb.edu> <BITMEADC.97Feb26160757@alcatel.com.au> <3314C92E.1AEA58A0@brainfart.com> <5f4aoc$msv$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> <5f577p$99m@lynx.dac.neu.edu> <y2qn2soq5yq.fsf@aristotle.algonet.se> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:162634 comp.os.linux.advocacy:86664 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2708 Mats Lofkvist <mal@aristotle.algonet.se> wrote: > The only real source of differences is the compiler and the libraries > used. FreeBSD's and Linux' gcc are close enough to make compiler differences > not very likely. Apart from the often mentioned (and thanks to Bruce Evans now fixed) problem with libm not using the FPU by default, don't forget that all FreeBSD 2.1.x systems ship with gcc 2.6.3. Since this is the `stable' line of our development, it was the word that gcc 2.7.2.1 is too risky to bring it there, even for FreeBSD 2.1.7. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j