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From: poirot@laurel.jsc.nasa.gov (Daniel Poirot)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one?
Date: 5 Oct 1994 15:52:05 GMT
Organization: NASA Johnson Space Center
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In article <Cx7Fwx.qLH@ns1.nodak.edu>,
Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu> wrote:
>In article <jeffpkCx4wtM.B64@netcom.com> jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman) writes:
><text removed>
>
>Technologies are quickly shared between all the OSes. So Linux, and *BSD are
>actually have the whole group contributing the features found in the OS. 
>So what are the major things to look for when choosing an OS (IMHO)?
>
>1) the basic "flavor" of Unix you like. Besides being Posix compliant, I think
>   everyone can agree that Linux is a System V based OS and *BSD is BSD based
>   OS. there is a slight philosophy difference.

How do you figure?  Aside from /etc/inittab run state stuff, I can't
think of a thing that makes Linux look like SysV (yuck).  

When I compile stuff off the Net, I configure for BSD.

I hardly think that /proc counts either...

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