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Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 15:58:05 +0000
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From: Michael Doyle <relyod@co-operation-ireland.ie>
Subject: Re: Article "One-Stop versus point"
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In your article "One-stop versus point" (IT Week, 8 March 99)
you make the point that with the differing providers for Linux 
applications, your applications can easily get out of synch with
each other.

The FreeBSD operating system (which IT Week seems to ignore except
for remarks in passing) has a single source for ported applications
which are kept in step with each other, and with the current "leading
edge" of the operating system.

There are currently more than 2,000 applications in the ports 
library maintained by the FreeBSD ports team.

In addition to these resources, FreeBSD can run most Linux applications
under emulation if a native port does not exist.

FreeBSD offers just what you claim Linux needs to offer to compete with
Microsoft - a single, unified, source of applications in step with the
current version of the operating system

Michael Doyle
Network Administrator
Co-operation Ireland.

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