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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!hydra!klaava!lukka From: lukka@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tuomas J Lukka) Subject: Re: 386BSD vs Linux Message-ID: <1993Apr12.211803.11996@klaava.Helsinki.FI> Organization: University of Helsinki References: <1q7ot2$guo@sunb.ocs.mq.edu.au> <1q87cpINNfql@gap.caltech.edu> <1q8bg3$1rju@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1993 21:18:03 GMT Lines: 19 >You didn't mention the one advantage Linux has over 386BSD that I can't >argue with: a coordinated release mechanism. This appears to be >changing. Well, it goes both ways... Linux has coordinated KERNEL releases but 386BSD has had a single coordinated UTILITIES release + source. This means a lot less looking around ftp sites hunting for a single package of which there are thousands (sysvinit, lilo ETC.) whereas with 386BSD you get a version of each with the distribution. So initially it's a lot less trouble, because you get the source (not so in SLS) but when the patching begins, whoa! (I DO use linux, it's just hard work to be up to date on everything...) TJL