David Seifert said:
> > Gessh, even Linux outperforms
> > NetBSD on many platforms, and that is embarassing (even to me.)
> 
> On the one platform I have that Linux "supports" (*), the apps crash much
> faster on Linux.  I guess you could call that "outperforms".
> 
> (*) for some really lame definition of "supports".
> 
> > We certainly don't want to be constrained
> > by the limitations of an OS that has lots of ports...
> 
> I don't want to be constrained by an OS that only runs on wintel boxes.
> 
That problem is in the process of going away, with political
resistance :-).

> 
> FreeBSD has a large quantity of apps, but doesn't run on any
> of the 3 platform types I own.
> 
> NetBSD has fewer apps, but it has the quality of running on 2 of my
> 3 platform types.
> 
FreeBSD will likely never run on more than 3-4 architectures, and 
that allows for reasonable quality control.

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