How would
early Linux or WhateverBSD compare to, say, some of the
commercial Unix implementations that were available for the PC in
The open source
distributions are likely to have more modern,
Actually, for many purposes they're better despite that. (For a few
purposes, even, they're better because of it.)
better supported toolchains.
Right. Like the way I once tried to report a bug in NetBSD's gcc and
NetBSD wasn't interested because it was an externally-maintained piece
of the system and gcc wasn't interested because I wasn't reporting
against bleeding-edge code. I've had better support from commercial
vendors, which is really saying something.
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