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Date:      Tue, 3 Sep 1996 16:44:48 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux 96 (my impressions) 
Message-ID:  <Pine.AUX.3.94.960903164215.1166A-100000@covina.lightside.com>
In-Reply-To: <10782.841792806@time.cdrom.com>

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On Tue, 3 Sep 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> > Advantage:  Linux supports the Amiga filesystem.  Pretty cool since I
> 
> I don't think this is anything more than a transient advantage at best. :-)
> 
> Speaking as a former Amiga owner and lover, the machine is bleedin'
> DEAD, any protestations from its new owners aside, and it'd be a waste
> of time implementing features like this when our own msdosfs is still
> broken and win95 name support is non-existant. :-(

Hey I didn't say it was a _big_ advantage, or a reason ANYONE would choose
Linux over FreeBSD, just that it was something nifty that caught my eye.
If somebody really wanted Amiga FS support, they could just as easily pull
it out of NetBSD than Linux.

Now Linux's handling of VFAT/MSDOS is something we need to worry about.

-- Jake




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