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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:48179 comp.os.386bsd.questions:3851 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!caen!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!tedux!mo!compi!muts From: muts@muts.hacktic.nl (Peter Mutsaers) Subject: Re: SUMMARY: 486DX2/66 for Unix conclusions (fairly long) In-Reply-To: pcg@aber.ac.uk's message of Tue, 13 Jul 1993 20:19:59 GMT Followup-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions References: <21k903$3q4@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU> <PCG.93Jul12003233@decb.aber.ac.uk> <21qg8k$ra3@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU> <PCG.93Jul13212000@decb.aber.ac.uk> Sender: muts@muts.hacktic.nl (Peter Mutsaers) Organization: My unorganized home Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1993 00:11:42 GMT Message-ID: <MUTS.93Jul15011142@muts.hacktic.nl> Lines: 25 >>On Tue, 13 Jul 1993 20:19:59 GMT, pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) >>said: PG> rather stable, in this sense. For example the FFS, and the networking PG> code, and the space allocators, and ... Linux is nice, but BSD4 has the PG> benefits of a longer and maybe more distinguished history behind it. OK it is more experimental, but I'm sure it has been made with existing unices including BSD as example. In fact the paging system is very efficient and clearly ahead of BSD. Linux has the same history as inputs for inspiration; but it is not so fixed yet so it can implement and include true New Technology still. PG> Well, Linux is a much newer technolopgy than BSD; I'd say that PG> Linux is currently at about the BSD4.1c level, i.e. circa 1982 PG> in the BSD evolution. I regard 386BSD as a temporary hack PG> waiting for the much dreamt-of release of BSD4.4-Lite. As such ?? Linux is newer technology, yes indeed. But what do you mean with the statment that it is at the BSD4.1c level? You're talking about the level of 'frozenness' I assume; then I can agree. -- ______________________________________________________________________ Peter Mutsaers | Bunnik (Ut), | Quod licet bovi, muts@muts.hacktic.nl | the Netherlands | non licet Jovi