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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA254 ; Sun, 31 Jan 93 13:59:34 EST Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:24463 comp.unix.bsd:10577 Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!agate!soda.berkeley.edu!wjolitz From: wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Jolitz) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 386BSD vs. Linux Date: 28 Jan 1993 23:00:26 GMT Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association Lines: 23 Message-ID: <1k9oia$24i@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <1993Jan5.141227.21185@discus.technion.ac.il> <1k957dINNa81@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <C1KzwK.EC6@inews.Intel.COM> NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.berkeley.edu Keywords: pari, ushort In article <C1KzwK.EC6@inews.Intel.COM> dvanbibb@td2cad.intel.com (Dwaine VanBibber) writes: >Hello, > This is most likely an FAQ...but here goes. I'm interested in acquiring >a free/inexpensive Unix for my 486 PC at home. After following the DDJ >series on 386BSD I am somewhat interested in it; however, I've been >following the Linux as well. Which to choose? Maybe someone on the know >can tell me the relative merits of each. Thanks. Why not get both and try them out? Both 386BSD and Linux fit into partitions on your PC disk -- you even have room for MSDOS and something else, if you have the disk space. You can get a copy of 386BSD from agate.berkeley.edu (and it's mirror sites) via anonymous ftp. It is also available on CDROM from Austin Code Works (info@acw.com) [Note -- this is unpatched 0.1 -- you should get the patchkit in /unofficial on agate, and also the FAQ]. While the "Porting" series ended in July, we still write feature articles for DDJ -- our December issue article discussed the 386BSD ISO-9660 filesystem format. I'll be detailing Rock Ridge extensions (with code) in the March [tent.] issue. Lynne Jolitz.