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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2870 comp.os.linux.misc:20444 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc 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!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!swidir.switch.ch!newsfeed.ACO.net!Austria.EU.net!EU.net!uunet!world!lparsons From: lparsons@world.std.com (Lee E Parsons) Subject: Re: Usefulness of BSD/Linux Source Knowledge (was BSD vs. LINUX) Message-ID: <Ctnx8G.LBL@world.std.com> Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA References: <30jqp1$ees@grex.cyberspace.org> <1994Jul24.185248.5906@escape.widomaker.com> <michaelv.775258838@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> <1994Jul28.025818.6937@escape.widomaker.com> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 18:12:15 GMT Lines: 35 Shannon Hendrix <shendrix@escape.widomaker.com> wrote: [...] >Somewhat? It's pretty close. So is BSD. Never said it wasn't. The >original poster seemed to be saying that BSD was better for learning >to program UNIX and it is not. Now, from a system level, yeah, it is >because it's the real thing, not a re-write. Of course, reading Linux >kernel source is certainly a good way to learn about OS's. [...] >I never said that, implied it, or endorsed it. The original poster said >BSD was better because of X,Y,Z and that wasn't true except what you >just said about the internals. Most UNIX programming is done from an To clarify, 'original poster' couldn't give a flip about POSIX. I would like to know how FS read ahead is done and what happens when you change the TCP transmition variables. I thought my example with load averages would have been enough to avoid this argument. >Now, I do see the point about UNIX internals and I was aware of that. In >fact, I'm going to install BSD on my system simply to I can get at the >internals and see that instead of Linux and because I want to play with >BSD on my home system (never have had it run on an Intel before). So the answer to my question is 'Yes Lee. Given your criteria, you made the right choice by using *BSD instead of Linux' -- Regards, Lee E. Parsons Systems Oracle DBA lparsons@world.std.com