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Date:      Tue, 3 Sep 1996 15:07:07 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux 96 (my impressions) 
Message-ID:  <199609032107.PAA26936@rocky.mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <199609032023.OAA27886@rover.village.org>
References:  <199609032023.OAA27886@rover.village.org>

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> : Advantage:  Linux supports the Amiga filesystem.  Pretty cool since I
> : happened to have an Amiga-formatted Zip disk lying around!  The
> 
> NetBSD and OpenBSD have something called adosfs.  I don't know if it
> is endian clean or not.  I don't know the effort of porting to
> FreeBSD, but that might not be a bad place to start if someone was
> wanting this bad enough...

I *highly* suspect that the Net/OpenBSD code is at least as robust as
the code in Linux.  At last one of the Linux-Amiga hackers switched over
to using NetBSD when it became more feasible, so the NetBSD code is
going to be pretty good.  (The Amiga hacker I know is *very* capable).



Nate



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