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Date:      Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:27:12 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz>
Cc:        Angus Robinson <angus@fairhaven.za.net>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: I Love FreeBSD!
Message-ID:  <87zl3rgtof.fsf@kobe.laptop>
In-Reply-To: <4B664798.6020008@daleco.biz> (Kevin Kinsey's message of "Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:16:40 -0600")
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On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:16:40 -0600, Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> wrote:
>> It was NetBSD
>> http://www.embeddedarm.com/software/arm-netbsd-toaster.php
>
> Yes, that was one.  And at least one Linuxen did the same thing.  I
> guess if we want someone can say who was first, but it's no big deal
> to me.  It may well have been NetBSD first, they're uber-geeks similar
> to the FBSD folk, and are well known for hw compatibility, but you
> know that, I'm sure.

Yes, the NetBSD folks have a very portable source tree and are known for
the high-quality of their source.  It probably doesn't really matter who
ran on a toaster first, since I'd take NetBSD sources over Linux sources
without so much as a blink of a second thought *any* day :-)




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