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From: dillon@apollo.west.oic.com (Matthew Dillon)
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: 22 Jul 1994 00:49:37 -0700
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In article <30drlt$7tc@news.u.washington.edu> tzs@u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) writes:
:I realize I'm treading on dangerous ground here, since I'm going to
:
:Historically, these classes of people have preferred Berkeley Unix
:to System V. System V appealed to the corporate world, where what
:was important was a supported Unix.
:
:Hence, I would expect {Free,Net}BSD to be overwhelmingly more popular
:than Linux. Yet, based on the volume of posting on the net, the number
:of FTP sites that carry each system, and the number of CD-ROM places that
:...
:
:--Tim Smith
Well, I fit into that category... I can't stand SysV, yet I am using
Linux.
What it comes down to is the user interface... for the most part,
system utilities such as 'ps' use BSD style options. I find that
I don't mind the programming differences as long as the utilities
use sane BSDisms.
Another big point is the fact that Linux relies heavily on GNU
utilities and is ground-up ANSI-C. The only SysVisms you really
have to worry about are:
* signal() handling (you have to re-arm signals by default)
* directory access
* tty stuff -- I like the sysVish termios calls much better
then the old BSD ioctls.
Linux also implements the more interesting BSD system calls such as
mmap(), so I'm happy!
-Matt
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