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From: Alberto@ishiilab.dnj.ynu.ac.jp (Alberto Tomita Junior)
Subject: Re: Why 386BSD?
In-Reply-To: nate@cs.montana.edu's message of Mon, 7 Jun 1993 20:23:41 GMT
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In article <1993Jun7.202341.25245@coe.montana.edu> nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:
>In article <1uv9vc$6q8@vermeer.ecs.soton.ac.uk> jfb292@ecs.soton.ac.uk (James Berry) writes:
> >Are there any reasons why I should choose 386BSD rather than, say,
> >Linux or SCO?
> >
> >I'm trying to evaluate which Unix to use and would welcome an
> >UNBIASED opinion weighing up the pros and cons of each system please.
>
> There is no such thing as an unbiased opinion. :-)
>
> Try both of them out, and decide from there. There aren't any costs involved
> to try them out, other than time.
Didn't someone say that "time is money" ? :-) Just joking.
I read the FAQs for 386BSD and for Linux, and browsed the articles
posted at related newsgroups. But I still don't know if there's
anything beyond 386BSD = BSD and Linux = System V.
Linux seems to have greatter support for MS-DOS and a wide hardware
compatibility, but I could't find a hardware compatibility list for
386BSD to compare.
Any coments are wellcome.
Thanks.
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