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   Scott Dorsey to Dan Cross   
   Re: =?utf-8?B?4oCcUm9jay1Tb2xpZOKAnQ==?=   
   27 Jan 26 19:03:16   
   
   From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   In article <10l8sa1$ft6$1@reader2.panix.com>,   
   Dan Cross  wrote:   
   >In article <10l2pga$i97$1@panix2.panix.com>,   
   >Scott Dorsey  wrote:   
   >>Dan Cross  wrote:   
   >>>...or you could just run FreeBSD and avoid the whole issue.  Why   
   >>>bother with Linux?  What's so special about it that people feel   
   >>>_compelled_ to run it?   
   >>   
   >>Third party commercial applications will run on it.  Matlab will not   
   >>run on BSD unfortunately.   
   >   
   >Yeah, I get that.  I do wonder whether it would work with the   
   >Linux compat stuff, but really have no idea about that.  I   
   >suppose then I would ask, given the requirement to run an   
   >application like Matlab, which implies Linux, why bother with   
   >ZFS?   
      
   I don't need ZFS.  There are plenty of other reasons to like BSD.   
   --scott   
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