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From: tom@wpzd07.pzlc.uni-wuerzburg.de (Thomas Heiling)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: BSD vs Linux
Date: 11 Jun 1994 18:32:47 GMT
Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany
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Dave Burgess (burgess@s069.infonet.net) wrote:
: I have just finished your compilation of the differences between the
: various U*ix clones and have a few things to say:
: 1. This document is excellent. It succinctly describes the
: differences between the OSs in their current (or close to current)
: state. I will be using as much as possible for the *BSD FAQ in the
: future.
I hope someone will add my white some spaces RSN.
: 2. This document will never be read again. It will serve the same
: function as a FAQ. It will sit on the net and be ignored so that three
: or four times a week someone will have to post a meassage that reads
: "Please read the Differences List" instead of "Please read section 0 of
: the FAQ".
I hope it will :-)
: 3. It is going to be a nightmare to keep current. It is already
: wildly out of date for some of the NetBSD stuff, and leaves many newbie
: type questions unanswered. There are many, many features of the *BSD
: systems that exist that were not listed, and many features that have
: been vastly improved in the past six months. For example, QIC-40/80
: support is built into FreeBSD, and if I can ever get it working will
: get pounded into NetBSD.
My intension was NOT to keep it current. The idea was and is to give
a comparison of the *distributions*. For all people without net acess
this is the crucial point IMHO. I have tried not to include anything
from not usable because too slow - Dos emulator - or not yet stable
- WINE or the iBCS2 Code- , or anything from {Free|Net}BSD-current.
Your 3.rd sentence is the Problem "There are many, many features ..."
If I cannot get/see this information in the FAQ, how can a new
unix users read this info ?
: I tried writing this document once, a long time ago. After getting
: flamed nearly out of existence for it, I decided that it wasn't worth
: the effort and gave up. That is why section 0 of the FAQ says what
: it says.
Why are you getting flamed for this work ?
: I stand by my original answers:
: 1. Get them and try them. You will like one of them. They are
: available on the net for free and on CD-ROM for less than $50 total.
Exactly this *is* the Problem. As a U*ix newbie you can't install them
all. Mainly due to space or machine limitations. And for a usable
system you must download XXX disks or have a supported CD-ROM drive.
You will try it once for *one* system, but you will choose the system,
where you get most informations *before* you start the download.
: 2. Read the FAQs that are posted to the net regularly. Every two
: weeks is plenty enough for the *BSD one (IMHO) but I can post it every
: day if I want; I own my feed. I still think that this makes more sense
: than any other advice I can give. If a newbie is so new that they
: haven't even read the rest of the news in the group, then they are
: posting completely blind and deserve to be flamed.
A quick wc shows that the BSD-FAQ is now about 8415 lines long.
Unfortunately you have to grep long to extract the
info on the newer *BSD-system, i mean {Net|Free}BSD.
: 3. Find out what your friends have and do that. It worked with Video
: tape, and it will work here.
True, but this works only if you *have* people, which are willing
to try Unix ! If you must decide, what system is good and has no
other systems, where you can look to - you start reading in the
News Groups and on rtfm.mit.edu for the FAQS.
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Thomas Heiling Pharmacist & Doctorate at
Pharmazeutisches Institut Uni Wuerzburg - Germany
Email phar006@rzbox.uni-wuerzburg.de (HP-UX)
tom@wpzd07.pzlc.uni-wuerzburg.de (Linux)
or phar006@vax.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de ( VAX )
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