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From: heiser@bumetb.bu.edu (Bill Heiser)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: bsd vs linux????
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Date: 4 Sep 1993 19:51:25 GMT
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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 :-)