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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!cs.mu.OZ.AU!lha From: lha@ee.mu.OZ.AU (Lachlan Leicester Henry ANDREW) Subject: Shared libraries (was: FreeBSD vs. Linux???) Message-ID: <lha.760146931@mullian.ee.Mu.OZ.AU> Sender: news@cs.mu.OZ.AU Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia References: <2igljt$dvc@crl2.crl.com> <2ihgut$2oq@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> Date: Tue, 1 Feb 1994 23:55:31 GMT Lines: 30 storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) writes: >In article <2igljt$dvc@crl2.crl.com>, Brian T. Hovey <bhovey@crl.com> wrote: >>Are there any major differences between Linux and FreeBSD? What are the >>advantages of one over the other? > the standard spiel is that linux is more of a sysv system, and > *bsd [freebsd and netbsd] are 4.3 net/2 derived systems. in > terms of technical merit, i don't think that either is really > 'better' than the other. I am currently running 386BSD on a 486/50 iwth 8MB RAM, without shared libraries. When I start a couple of X apps, the machine starts to thrash. Is this usual or avoidable? The main advantage I found of 386BSD over Linux was its stability. I don't have the time or inclination (or possibly the expertise :-) to recompile the kernel every couple of days. Is there a nice stable version of *BSD with shard libraries? If so, how much would I have to change to install it? Would I basically have to start everything again? (If so, I might as well join the Linux community...) Lachlan ================================================================================ Lachlan Andrew lha@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au Dept. Elec. and Elec. Eng. University of Melbourne, Parkville Vic 3052 AUSTRALIA