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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!ucsvax!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.clark.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!prism!gt8134b Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Better to start with: NETBSD-0.9 or BSD386????? Message-ID: <110051@hydra.gatech.EDU> From: gt8134b@prism.gatech.EDU (Howlin' Bob) Date: 24 Aug 93 02:15:49 GMT Sender: news@prism.gatech.EDU References: <CBuoK1.4C6@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de> <CBwnpv.2Ju@autelca.ascom.ch> <255air$1c4@cleese.apana.org.au> Lines: 24 newton@cleese.apana.org.au (Mark Newton) writes: >In article <CBwnpv.2Ju@autelca.ascom.ch> nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch (Norbert Bladt) writes: >>If you are a former MS-DOS user choose LINUX. >>It's easier to install, and - most important :-) - it will give you the >>feeling of MS-DOS (Ctrl-Alt-Del works !). >One of the things I like about BSD is that ctl-alt-del /doesn't/ work. >Why should it? Why bring DOSisms into UNIX? Why put your system into >a state in which it can be accidentally rebooted if you lean on the >keyboard in the wrong way? One of the things I like about Linux is that you get to choose what CAD does. Or you can map reboot to a completely different set of keys -- all from the runtime loadable keymaps. I do a lot of nasty development, and being able to get the system to reboot even when I have fudged up the console is nice. -- Robert Sanders Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 uucp: ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!gt8134b Internet: gt8134b@prism.gatech.edu