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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:26806 comp.os.386bsd.misc:3705 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.uoregon.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!selway.umt.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one? Date: 12 Oct 1994 19:18:57 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana Lines: 34 Message-ID: <37hcr1$8b6@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <36qeaf$jt4@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <542yTc1w165w@oasys.pc.my> NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.90.192.29 Keywords: mosaic term telnet In article <542yTc1w165w@oasys.pc.my>, Othman Ahmad <othman@oasys.pc.my> wrote: >mbandy@superdec.uni.uiuc.edu (Harf) writes: >> >> I prefer Linux, but I use FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 because it more closely >> resembles Ultrix, which I have to run on a DECstation which I assist in >> administrating. > >I was told by someone who had not tried *BSD >that Linux can behave like Sun OS which was based on BSD. >Similarly with Ultrix. I believe it is a matter of degree of similarity. Having been an Ultrix administrator for some years, and run Linux for a very short time and now a FreeBSD developer, I can say with certainty that Linux is *nothing* like Ultrix when compared to FreeBSD. FreeBSD is orders of magnitude closer to Ultrix than Linux will ever be. Some would argue that it's not necessarily a good thing. :-) >From a previous post, I was given the impression that we need to set BSD >in order to compile easily for Linux. Set BSD for what? >Is it possible that the presence of FFS and vfork is contributing to the >similarity of FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 with Ultrix? Nope. Ultrix is probably the last of the commercial OS that is still primarily BSD based (excepting BSDI's offering). However, it's being phased out by OSF/1, so it's a dead-end OS as far as DEC is concerned. -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | home #: (406) 586-0579 | Available for contract/otherwise work.