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- From: magus@drktowr.chi.il.us (Louis Giliberto)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: Additional library directories
- Message-ID: <9212234981@drktowr.chi.il.us>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 12:39:34 GMT
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- Tony Porczyk (messina@netcom.com) wrote:
- : Actually, I hope that COH stays lean and mean (but with virtual memory
- : and TCPIP). If I need huge system with Emacs, GCC and X, there is
- : 386BSD (which I do have) and a plethora of others. I prefer several
- : specialized tools that fit their roles very well to one for everything
- : that barely does anything right or requires CRAY-like resources.
-
- I agree. I have 386BSD, and it's a pig. Linux is better (by a lot),
- but I still stick with Coherent because it's small, and the development
- is more controlled. I'd rather wait for something that works (relatively
- speaking, of course) than fiddle with 100 kernel patches. Nothing wrong
- with that, either, I just don't have time to keep up.
-
- -Louis
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- Louis J. Giliberto, Jr. ! magus@drktowr.chi.il.us
- -sysadmin drktowr ! lgilibe@orion.it.luc.edu
- Chicago, IL USA !
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