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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!zodiac.cca.cr.rockwell.com!apollo1.cacd.cr.rockwell.com!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!swidir.switch.ch!news.univie.ac.at!aci.cvut.cz!rhino.cis.vutbr.cz!varda!kas From: kas@varda.ics.muni.cs (Jan Kasprzak) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Shared libraries (was: FreeBSD vs. Linux???) Date: 14 Feb 1994 11:49:46 GMT Organization: Technical University of Brno, Czech Republic Lines: 56 Message-ID: <2jnogq$ocu@rhino.cis.vutbr.cz> References: <2igljt$dvc@crl2.crl.com> <2ihgut$2oq@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> <lha.760146931@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au> <2in1j1$cq5@pdq.coe.monta NNTP-Posting-Host: varda.ics.muni.cz nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: >In article <lha.760146931@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au>, >Lachlan Leicester Henry ANDREW <lha@ee.mu.OZ.AU> wrote: >> >>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? IMHO, Linux is now pretty stable. I used 386BSD/NetBSD 0.8 for a year, and I can shut it down with crashme. Then I upgraded to NetBSD 0.9, but had no disk space to use it. NetBSD0.9 you cannot shut down with crashme. Then I installed Linux. On the same disk space, where NetBSD leaves only 1 Meg free (without X, of course) I have now Linux with XFree86, OpenLook, etc. I was never be able to shut down Linux with crashme or any other way. My kernel _never_ panics. Now there is compressed filesystem driver, so if I want, I would have even more disk space. (My disk space is ~75 M for UNIX, the rest (55M) for MS-DOG). If you are running out of disk space, you shoud install Linux. If you are fast and big machines, I thing *BSD and Linux are pretty equal. >Not yet. Both *BSD version have not made a public release of their >version with shlib support in it, though FreeBSD is expecting to release >version 1.1 in early March which will have shlibs as one of the many new >features. [Some stuff deleted...] >>(If so, I might as well join the Linux community...) >Why do you say that? The same reason that brought you to use BSD is still >valid, is it not? Definitely no. (see the above). >Nate NOTE: I don't want to follow the discussion "Linux vs *BSD", which performs on comp.os.386bsd and comp.os.linux a long time. It's simply true, that on little disks Linux flies. -Yenya cat $FLAMES >/dev/null -- Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak \ while (*p++ = *q++) ; Student of Comp. Sc. \ Dennis Ritchie kas@erebor.ics.muni.cz \----------------------------------------- kas@muni.cz \ MS-DOS ?! No, thank you...