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From: David E. O'Brien <obrien@relay.nuxi.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: BSD vs Linux
Date: 27 May 1997 00:56:56 GMT
Organization: University of California, Davis
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stephen farrell <stephen+usenet@farrell.org> wrote:
> 5. I like the /proc filesystem on linux.  I'm a big fan of flashing
> lights and the /proc filesystem makes it trivial to write status
> utilities.

Can you not do this with FreBSD's /proc fs?

> converting to ELF, and now we're due for libc6 == glibc2 which is

I'm curious.  I've seen a few references to libc6 and glibc2.  Just what
is this?  I thought Linux used glibc all along.

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-- David    (obrien@NUXI.com  -or-  obrien@FreeBSD.org)