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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:30869 comp.os.386bsd.questions:974 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!decwrl!netcomsv!amscons!bob From: bob@amscons.com (Bob Amstadt) Subject: Re: 386bsd, linux: which runs more out of the box? References: <hwr.732890376@snert.ka.sub.org> Organization: Amstadt Consulting Group Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1993 22:47:55 GMT X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4 Message-ID: <1993Mar23.224755.918@amscons.com> Lines: 23 hwr@snert.ka.sub.org (Heiko W.Rupp) writes: : cgd@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes: : >In article <1993Mar23.085058.13670@serval.net.wsu.edu> hlu@luke.eecs.wsu.edu (HJ Lu) writes: : >>Linux can do POSIX, SYSV and most of BSD. : : >(which tends to be fine-tuned per platform), you'll end up : >being able to compile things just as, if not more easily : >under 386bsd... : : There is another thing to consider: : 386bsd has a stable BSD-FFS and stable networking, while there are bugs in : the Linux efs and in their networking. : While most peoble only use Unix Domain IPC and no Internet Domain IPC, the : later is not grave, but the former leads to data loss. Guess again. Linux extended file system works just fine. Although I would highly recommend one of the newer file systems because of speed. You are right about the networking, but much work is be done in this area. I currently use Linux networking code daily and only minor mishaps on a very infrequent basis. -- Bob Amstadt bob@amscons.com