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Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 13:14:34 -0700
From: mike allison <mallison@konnections.com>
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The Hermit Hacker wrote:

>         Agreed...the other aspect is that if a product is compiled/ported
> to BSD, it will make use of certain optimizations in BSDs libraries.
> 
>       So, StarOffice for Linux running under Linux would most likely be
> 'faster' then being emulated under FreeBSD
> 
> Marc G. Fournier


Also,

In a perfect virtual Unix world (where the name Gates doesn't appear in
teh Phone book), a FreeBSD port could easily become a *BSD port meaning
that it will run on over 14 architectures in a short period of time....

-Mike