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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:10893 comp.os.linux.help:37645 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.linux.help Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!wariat.org!kf8nh!bsa From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) Subject: Re: BSD vs Linux Message-ID: <1994Jun10.214033.20106@kf8nh.wariat.org> Organization: Brandon's Linux box and AmPR node, Mentor, OH Date: Fri, 10 Jun 1994 21:40:33 GMT References: <2t5r0f$24q@cleese.apana.org.au> <Cr5uCG.BMB@rex.uokhsc.edu> <1994Jun10.095736.5367@uk.ac.swan.pyr> <1994Jun10.150054.25448@cm.cf.ac.uk> Lines: 25 In article <1994Jun10.150054.25448@cm.cf.ac.uk>, paul@myrddin.isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul) says: +--------------- | Are files in different places in different releases? I'd find that | extremely annoying. It irritates me enough to remember where ping +------------->8 In the past, yes. However, we're hammering out a file system standard for Linux which addresses this. | If they're just stripped down versions, with chunks missing, like | networking commands etc then I'd understand. I think that's something | we're going to have to look at for FreeBSD pretty soon. +------------->8 I don't know if MCC has adopted the FSSTND yet; I hope so. If it has, then it *is* simply a stripped system; however, it has networking. What's missing are things like X, mail, news, etc. It's intended as a stripped workstation with local compilation environment; mail, news, etc. are accessed via telnet/rlogin to a server; presumably, this corresponds to the way the Manchester Computing Centre does things. ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery kf8nh@kf8nh.ampr.org bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org The FUDs at Microsoft are shouting "Kill The Wabi!"