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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2732 comp.os.linux.misc:19822 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sunic!trane.uninett.no!nac.no!ifi.uio.no!usenet From: kjetilho@ifi.uio.no (Kjetil Torgrim Homme) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: I hope this won't ignite a major flame war, but I've got to know! Date: 19 Jul 1994 16:38:00 GMT Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway Lines: 18 Message-ID: <30gvh8$afo@glitnir.ifi.uio.no> References: <30drlt$7tc@news.u.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: surt.ifi.uio.no In-reply-to: tzs@u.washington.edu's message of 18 Jul 1994 12:13:49 GMT [You seemed to create a flame war for all your good purposes. Let's hope this is not flamable.] What are the differences between SysV and BSD to a user? The number one complaint of people going from BSD to SysV is the flags to "ps". I am not kidding, take away "ps ux" from people, and they'll get mad. Linux' ps has a BSD interface. Other issues are default shell: SysV has ksh, BSD has csh, Linux has bash; annoying static memory limits on e.g. numbers of arguments to programs and so on -- Linux doesn't suffer from these traits. It's irrational, I know, but users are irrational, too. (I am one of them, lest people accuse me of being condescending :-). Kjetil T.