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From: cflatter@nrao.edu (Chris Flatters)
Subject: Re: 386BSD questions, as compared to Linux
Message-ID: <1992Jul20.202726.2245@nrao.edu>
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Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1992 20:27:26 GMT
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In article AA03509@cs.utexas.edu, STDN%MARIST@VM.MARIST.EDU (Dan Newcombe) writes:
>I have a few question now that 0.1 is here and I can run it on my
>no387 computer.
>
> 1) Does BSD support multiple logins at once.  Linux allows you to
>switch between 4 terminals using Alt F1-F4.  Can I still do this
>in BSD?

I'm pretty sure that you can't.  You can probably get the functionality
you want from by getting hold of the screen-2.1c package from prep.ai.mit.edu
and compiling it for 386BSD (I think that it should go with minimal effort
but, on the other hand, I haven't tried it).

>
> 2) How do BSD and Linux compare in general?

Having just put a new disk in my PC, I brought 386BSD 0.1 up on the
weekend.  It is a more complete OS than linux and appears rather more
polished.  On the other hand it is a lot bigger (partly because there
is a lot more to it and partly because 386BSD doesn't support sharable
libraries) and system administration is more complex (386BSD is a full-
scale BSD UNIX system).

I'm going to give 386BSD a whirl for a month or so.  Unless I find real
problems I don't think that I will be switching back to Linux.

	Chris Flatters
	cflatter@nrao.edu