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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: bsd vs linux????
Message-ID: <1993Sep12.183113.9251@ichtys.rni.sub.org>
From: kmw@ichtys.rni.sub.org (Karsten M. Winkovics)
Date: 12 Sep 93 18:31:13 GMT
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Bill Heiser (heiser@bumetb.bu.edu) wrote:
: 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 BSD first around October last year. It was rather bulky (needed a
200+ MB disk for the source distribution), and ran sluggishlz on my
AMD386-33 with IDE disk/5 MB RAM. To make it run almost stable, a few dozens
of semi-official patches had to be applied (by a friend with a bigger disk
:(, couldn't recompile with small disks, see above).
From what I tried, compiling of applications worked most of the time.
compatibility was definitely no issue. Funktionality, however, was...
compiles/installs failed because of non-working tools!
I was rather disappointed, I had liked the concept of porting a mature OS
like bsd to the easily available pcs, but bsd/386 just couldn't cut it...
after 2 months of waiting for the Jolitz' new release I tried Linux, I think
0.96.6.
It ran well with my 386, but I ran into trouble installing software... not
being a C rsp. *ix guru , I tried to get along. I tried another SLS release,
and things got better, and with support fron the net, I got a stable system.
The situation now:
I'm happy running Linux 0.99pl9, now on a 486 with 16 MB RAM and half a gig
of disk space. UUCP and X11 are all right, and X with open look is as nice
as and faster than on a mid-size SPARC. In the end, Linux is, what I expected
from bsd...
The ongoing development of NetBSD/FreeBSD got my attention again, but right
now, I will stay with Linux.
CU on-line
-kw
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Karsten Winkovics {root,kmw}@ichtys.rni.sub.org
Sysadmin at ICHTYS BBS , Mannheim, FR Germany