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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:26891 comp.os.386bsd.misc:3719 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!alberta!atha!aupair.cs.athabascau.ca!rwa From: rwa@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca (Ross Alexander) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one? Keywords: mosaic term telnet Message-ID: <rwa.782069065@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca> Date: 13 Oct 94 17:24:25 GMT References: <36qeaf$jt4@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <542yTc1w165w@oasys.pc.my> Sender: news@cs.athabascau.ca Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc Lines: 29 othman@oasys.pc.my (Othman Ahmad) writes: >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. Ultrix was frozen on the 4.2 release fairly early in the game, and then a whole bunch of strange DEC stuff (MOP, LAT, RIS, DecNET, and that strange fs@host notation they use for NFS) got grafted on. Meantime, Sun at least waited for 4.3 Tahoe before the divergences got to be noticeable. (I was there for all of this, admin'ing a mixed Ultrix/SunOS shop with vax and sun servers + vax, decstation, sun3, and sun4 clients. Way fun.) To parody a famous un*x pronunciamento, SunOS 3.5 was an improvement on both its predecessors and successors. Ditto Ultrix 2.3 (mostly). regards, Ross -- Ross Alexander VE6PDQ rwa@cs.athabascau.ca, (403) 675 6311 rwa@auwow.cs.athabascau.ca Television is chewing gum for the eyes. -- Frank Lloyd Wright