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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:869 comp.os.linux.misc:1238 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.bu.edu!bumetb.bu.edu!heiser From: heiser@bumetb.bu.edu (Bill Heiser) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: bsd vs linux???? Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc Date: 4 Sep 1993 19:51:25 GMT Organization: Boston University Lines: 20 Message-ID: <26arjt$hkl@news.bu.edu> References: <2683ju$k15@nic.umass.edu> Reply-To: heiser@bumetb.bu.edu (Bill Heiser) NNTP-Posting-Host: bumetb.bu.edu In article <2683ju$k15@nic.umass.edu> ranger@twain.ucs.umass.edu (Net Ranger) writes: > >(2) What are some peoples observances about the differences (people who have >tried both please) I tried 386BSD several months ago. After *many* trials and tribulations, I got it to install correctly. But even then, there were several basic *blatant* bugs. Even simple things like 'cd' and 'ls' had bugs severe enough so that I wrote 386BSD off as "unusable in its present state". With LINUX (SLS 1.03), I just installed it, and with just a couple of fix-ups to correct for install problems, it's been pretty much fine since then. There are a few problems I've encountered, but the base OS seems *much* more stable than 386BSD. Just MHO, and your mileage may (probably will) vary :-)