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From: cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross)
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Subject: Re: =?utf-8?B?4oCcUm9jay1Tb2xpZOKAnQ==?= FreeBSD
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2026 13:23:14 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <10lbjo4$r2n$1@panix2.panix.com>,
Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote:
>In article <10l8sa1$ft6$1@reader2.panix.com>,
>Dan Cross <cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net> wrote:
>>In article <10l2pga$i97$1@panix2.panix.com>,
>>Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote:
>>>Dan Cross <cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net> 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.

	- Dan C.