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From: joev@garden.WPI.EDU (Joseph W. Vigneau)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one?
Date: 29 Sep 1994 07:34:38 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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In article <36djkn$nm8@girtab.usc.edu>, Po-Han Lin <plin@girtab.usc.edu> wrote:
>Ok, I didn't know QNX costs major money. So I am considering
>either 386bsd or linux. One person said I should get linux because
>386bsd is monolithic (controlled I guess), while linux is non-monolithic.
>Now the question is, which os better? Better as in...
Hopefully, this won't become YAFW (Yet Another Flame War), but here goes:
(BTW: I'm Linux person.. I don't claim to know much about *bsd..)
>1) least bugs, and stable IMPORTANT!
Linux is *extremely* stable... If you choke the display somehow, you can log
in via serial or network and fix the problem remotely...
>2) more software available that runs on it
Wordperfect and MapleV run on Linux, as well as commercial database
software...
>3) faster
I have no idea.. Linux runs pretty damn fast, though..
>4) more compliance to POSIX (I think standards are good, or am I wrong)
Again, don't know.. Linux will run pretty near anything you can throw at
it...
>5) more people using it.
Linux. Without a doubt.
>6) more support for third-party hardware (VLB, EISA, modems, etc) IMPORTANT!
I'd have to go with Linux, because more people (with lots of different
hardware) use and contribute to it..
>7) platform for programming.
Probably equal...
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