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Used, yes. Dominate, doubtful. Eliminate, highly improbable.

Posted Aug 17, 2005 18:02 UTC (Wed) by captrb (subscriber, #2291)
In reply to: Used, yes. Dominate, doubtful. Eliminate, highly improbable. by JoeBuck
Parent article: Sun's Linux killer shows promise (Register)

Sun ports some drivers from BSD. I was checking on driver support for a SCSI card a few weeks ago. The driver documentation explicity stated that the driver was ported from FreeBSD.

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Posted Aug 17, 2005 20:09 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Linux gets SCSI drivers from there, too. (sym53c8xx springs to mind.)

Used, yes. Dominate, doubtful. Eliminate, highly improbable.

Posted Aug 18, 2005 20:01 UTC (Thu) by captrb (subscriber, #2291) [Link]

The list of things Linux has gotten from BSD includes far more than just
a few SCSI drivers :-)