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   Scott Dorsey to Dan Cross   
   Re: =?utf-8?B?4oCcUm9jay1Tb2xpZOKAnQ==?=   
   28 Jan 26 11:58:33   
   
   From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   In article <10ld2k2$5ce$1@reader2.panix.com>,   
   Dan Cross  wrote:   
   >In article <10lbjo4$r2n$1@panix2.panix.com>,   
   >Scott Dorsey  wrote:   
   >>In article <10l8sa1$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.   
   >   
   >That's fine.  This discussion in particular was about ZFS on   
   >Linux, though.   
      
   It did indeed start out that way, yes.   
   --scott   
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