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Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 12:23:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Brandon Gillespie wrote:

> Question I have never had answered: you can run BSDI binaries in FreeBSD,
> is this native or is it pseudo-emulation, i.e. are you better off getting
> FreeBSD-native binaries, or does it really matter?

You're always better off with native binaries, but BSDi binaries are the
next in line.  BSDi and FreeBSD are very similiar on many levels, mainly
because they are from the same code base, BSD4.4-Lite.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major