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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Better to start with: NETBSD-0.9 or BSD386?????
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From: gt8134b@prism.gatech.EDU (Howlin' Bob)
Date: 24 Aug 93 02:15:49 GMT
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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
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