Subject: Re: the best Linux for me
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 03:52:19 -0600
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <4JydnZeZj5hO70vcRVn-tA@speakeasy.net>
Wade Humeniuk  <whumeniu-delete-this@telus.net> wrote:
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| Russell McManus wrote:
| > So I started using an operating system that "just works", NetBSD.  I
| > highly recommend it.  FreeBSD or OpenBSD are also excellent.  I think
| > that FreeBSD may be the best of the three for Lisp specifically.
| 
| I agree with that judgement. I run FreeBSD and have LWL, CMUCL and
| clisp running on it.
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Here's another recommendation for FreeBSD, which I run on both
my web/mail/DNS servers and my laptop, with both CMUCL & CLISP
(and Apache & PostGreSQL & Postfix [instead of sendmail!]).

One nice thing: FreeBSD's Linux emulation libraries are *very*
good at running most Linux binaries (e.g., Acroread, Mozilla),
useful when there aren't pre-built FreeBSD native binaries handy.


-Rob

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