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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:57401 comp.unix.bsd:13583 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!cf-cm!cybaswan!iiitac From: iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox) Subject: Re: BSD vs. Linux Message-ID: <1994Mar9.094748.4022@swan.pyr> Organization: Swansea University College References: <1994Mar8.141900.2906@wubios.wustl.edu> Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 09:47:48 GMT Lines: 25 In article <1994Mar8.141900.2906@wubios.wustl.edu> david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J Camp) writes: >What are the relative merits of NetBSD vs. Linux? Is either >technically superior? I suppose BSD is more portable. How difficult >is would it be to port the Linux utilities to BSD? -David- > Most of the core utilities are the same - being the GNU utilities. Generally speaking it looks like this BSD Linux Shells bash,tcsh,ksh bash,tcsh,ksh X windows Xfree86 Xfree86 Utilities GNU GNU Compiler GCC GCC etc... Apart from avoiding the BSD only oddities in programs and sticking to ANSI and POSIX (no bcopy etc) I treat them both as the same thing for applications work. I run Linux for the DOS emulator, the networking code and the fact it 'feels' faster to me. The soon to be released intel IBCS (commercial unix binary standard) support also matters here. Alan iiitac@pyr.swan.ac.uk