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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
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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

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Student of Comp. Sc.     \                         Dennis Ritchie
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kas@muni.cz                \  MS-DOS ?! No, thank you...