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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!pacbell.com!amdahl!hip-hop!dfox From: dfox@hip-hop.suvl.ca.us (David Fox) Subject: Re: Which is better ? References: <1993May25.095207.25469@uxmail.ust.hk> <1u0jqg$9br@daffy.ldp.com> <1u0u1h$jt6@umcc.umcc.umich.edu> <3528@bigfoot.first.gmd.de> Organization: Hip-Hop BBS, Sunnyvale, CA (408-773-0768) Date: Sun, 30 May 1993 23:11:36 GMT X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] Message-ID: <C7v4FC.363@hip-hop.suvl.ca.us> Lines: 60 Andreas Schulz (ats@bsd386.first.gmd.de) wrote: : In article <1u0u1h$jt6@umcc.umcc.umich.edu> lcd@umcc.umcc.umich.edu (Leon Dent) writes: : > : >As a Linux user I wonder about somthing posted earlier. Someone : >said they wanted a BSD system for their home. Having come to Linux : Why i want a BSD lookalike system over a system V lookalike system: : 1) I want long filenames, no fourteen character limit. That limitation was surpassed a long time ago. The ext2fs filesystem that most linux people are using is much more reasonable, and is quite good, even compared to the filesystem in 386BSD. : 2) I want symlinks, if i have space problems on one partition, i use : a symlink and put it into another partition. No please install It can symlink across partitions. I've done it myself. : 3) I want the filename completion in the C shell. If i type some : characters in a name and than press escape, it should beep:-). This is not a linux vs 386BSD issue. If you want filename completion in csh (the csh I had with 386BSD didn't do filename completion, or I didn't know it was possible at the time), you can add the capability for that by patching the sources. : 4) I want functional network code, i had not seen a crash : from the network code. And i use the network heavily on this : machine. I suspect 386BSD is far more functional for networking than Linux is. But I don't have a network. : I don't know, how LINUX is, but i heard it is more the System : V direction, than the BSD direction, and thats the reason, : i had not tried it yet. Well, it's actually closer to Posix, and has some BSD things in it. It also has some system V too. I'm now using Linux (probably for about a few weeks now), and I used 386BSD for 10 months. For my interests, I find linux to be better. It also for me is far more easily obtainable. I am a user on a 486-based linux box, so I can just easily download binaries. I don't have FTP access, and don't have enough disk space to hold the source code + patches etc. (The shared libraries in Linux are a Good Thing, given my h/w restrictions. I also have a 386SX/16, with a Cyrix 387, and IMHO linux runs faster than 386BSD does on most things. : -- : ATS ( ats@first.gmd.de or ats@cs.tu-berlin.de ) : Andreas Schulz GMD-FIRST O-1199 Berlin-Adlershof Rudower Chaussee 5 : Gebaeude 13.7 Tel: +49-30-6392-1856 Germany/Europe -- David E. Fox email: hip-hop!dfox@amdahl.com 5479 Castle Manor Drive San Jose, CA 95129 Thanks for letting me change the magnetic 408/ 253-7992 images on your hard drive.