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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: BSD vs. Linux
Date: 14 Mar 94 18:23:33 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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In <CMK8E9.EM5@eskimo.com> buddy@eskimo.com (Steven Horn) writes:
>gpalmer@cs.strath.ac.uk (Gary J Palmer C.S.3) writes:
>>*BSD : Lots of easily available C progs to compile & run easily.
>> Bigger kernel, so more memory needed.
Untrue. You can trim as much out of the system as you want. Trim
enough and it will even resemble Linux. :-)
>>Linux: Pain to get some (most?) BSD progs to work.
>> Smaller kernel, can run comfortably in 4Mb's.
>How much memory do you recommend to run *BSD??
I started with 5 meg in my NetBSD-current system. I currently have 10
meg. Although I'd like to have more, my system runs pleasantly with X
most of the time. Huge compiles can cause a bit of swapping when
chaning areas of the virtual desktop under tvtwm, but nothing
massively unpleasant.
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Michael L. VanLoon Iowa State University Computation Center
michaelv@iastate.edu Project Vincent Systems Staff
Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free Unix for PC/Mac/Amiga/etc.
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