From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 4 23:49:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA26554 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 23:49:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cc.jyu.fi (root@cc.jyu.fi [130.234.1.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA26549 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 23:49:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tukki.cc.jyu.fi (kallio@tukki.cc.jyu.fi [130.234.1.1]) by cc.jyu.fi (8.7.2/8.7.2) with ESMTP id JAA26608; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 09:53:12 +0300 (EET DST) Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 09:49:08 +0300 (EET DST) From: Seppo Kallio To: jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 People select the OS like they select text utilities: They compare and select the one having most features. AND they select the one others are using. Seppo Kallio kallio@jyu.fi Computing Center Fax +358-14-603611 U of Jyväskylä 62.14N 25.44E Phone +358-14-603606 PL 35, 40351 Jyväskylä, Finland http://www.jyu.fi/~kallio