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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!quagga.ru.ac.za!ucthpx!itu1.sun.ac.za!abs From: abs@cs.sun.ac.za (Andre Skarzynski) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: 386bsd vs Linux Date: 17 Oct 1994 12:51:20 GMT Organization: University of Stellenbosch Lines: 32 Message-ID: <37ts08$5h8@itu1.sun.ac.za> References: <37jsmt$9ri@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 146.232.212.23 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Tryst (tryst@kaiwan.com) wrote: : Hi there. After a great many annoying probs on my Linux Box [ most of : which are problems specific to the Slackware-reliese of Linux ], I am : obliged to pose the following question: : Has anyone here used both 386bsd AND Linux? Which did they prefer? : This question will also be posted in the Linux newsgroup, to get both : sides of the coin ;^). : My main experience has been on Sun IV OS. All else being equal, the one : that most closely resembles SUN IV wins. Linux is system V [bleh], but : has a lot of developed aplications for it. I have run both Linux and 386bsd/FreeBSD/Netbsd and SunOS. I am currently running FreeBSD on my 486 at home and NetBSD on my Sparc 1+ at work. I do prefer *BSD becuase it is much closer to SunOS then Linux in many places. Also I do prefer a "real" UN*X system then a multitasking OS for a PC (linux). Agreed, in the begining Linux was great, and taught me alot about kernels and file system layouts etc. I started with Linux 0.12, and stopped at around 0.95 and moved to 386bsd-0.1 when it was available. I later looked at Linux again, but the community had changed, and my ideas clashed with what was going on. Anyway, I enjoy *BSD, and when it comes to applications, almost anything on the net can be built, maybe with some effort in a few cases, but not many. A choice of OS can be a personal thing... :-) It is a matter of taste, and what your needs are. -- Andre B. Skarzynski -- Information Technology, University of Stellenbosch -- abs@itu1.sun.ac.za ------- Tel: +27 21 8084293 Fax: +27 21 8084102 --------