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From: phil@rivendell.apana.org.au (Phil Homewood)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one?
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Date: 1 Oct 1994 20:06:29 +1000
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Po-Han Lin (plin@girtab.usc.edu) wrote:
: Now the question is, which os better? Better as in...
: 1) least bugs, and stable IMPORTANT!
I'd say FreeBSD (not 386bsd btw, I'll leave advocacy of that up to
Jesus....)
: 2) more software available that runs on it
Both (what runs on one usually works with minimal hacking on the other)
: 3) faster
FreeBSD (the difference isn't generally noticeable)
: 4) more compliance to POSIX (I think standards are good, or am I wrong)
Hm... I think Linux gets it on this one (not sure)
- neither is 100% POSIX compliant to my knowledge.
: 5) more people using it.
Linux.
: 6) more support for third-party hardware (VLB, EISA, modems, etc) IMPORTANT!
mmmm possibly Linux, yep, I'd say Linux has it here.
: 7) platform for programming.
What exactly do you mean by this?
: Has anyone actually used both systems?
Yes. Personal preference: FreeBSD, but Linux has a lot of nice
features.
Phil.
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Phil Homewood phil@rivendell.apana.org.au
APANA Brisbane Regional Co-Ordinator brisbane@apana.org.au
"Every finger in the room is pointing at me
I wanna spit in their faces, then I get afraid what that could bring"