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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2248 comp.os.linux.misc:12515 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!news.funet.fi!news.eunet.fi!count From: count@snafu.muncca.fi (Bror 'Count' Heinola) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux Date: 6 Apr 1994 06:02:12 GMT Organization: ImproVision International (Finland) Lines: 40 Message-ID: <2ntj94$f1v@milou.eunet.fi> References: <CMzw69.92K@tower.nullnet.fi> <2nmeb4$ro@menudo.uh.edu> <2nq530$7hh@hecate.umd.edu> <CnrzFt.8Mq@hippo.ru.ac.za> NNTP-Posting-Host: snafu.muncca.fi In article <CnrzFt.8Mq@hippo.ru.ac.za>, Geoff Rehmet <csgr@cs.ru.ac.za> wrote: >In <2nq530$7hh@hecate.umd.edu> mark@elea.umd.edu (Mark Sienkiewicz) writes: >>primitive boot loaders pretending to be operating systems. [ :) ] Also, >>notice that it seems to be a point of pride to say "My machine has been >>up for XX days." That also suggests a lack of DOS. >You will find just as many Linux users who pride themselves in saying >that their system has been up XXXX days ;-) Well, in case with Linux it means that they're using severely outdated kernels :-) But using an outdated kernel isn't always bad; networking was quite broken in some .99 versions so it wasn't very intelligent to rush into updates. But unless you try the kernel, you won't know if it works or not, and you can't try new kernels without reboots, so there goes your uptime... :-) >Most of us don't do installs very often, and therefor don't often think >of those people doing installs ;-) I installed NetBSD 0.9 and Linux Slackware 1.2.0 both yesterday. Slackware's install program is rather user friendly, but I wish it would show list of available programs and let user choose from them, and after that ask for disks. I became majorly annoyed after waiting a few minutes and seeing that that disk didn't contain anything I wanted to install. Anyway things have started to look better lately, I first installed Linux over a year and a half ago from some crappy SLS and it sucked, and 1 year 4 months ago I installed 386BSD 0.1 to this machine I'm now writing this followup.. -- Bror 'Count' Heinola # E-mail: # Network admin of muncca.fi Perustie 21 A 1 # count@snafu.muncca.fi # and hole.fi Count in IRC 00330 HELSINKI # an14832@anon.penet.fi # "Be excellent to each Tel: +358-0-458-4334 # ...free your mind... # other!" - Bill & Ted