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From: nardone@clark.net (Joe Nardone)
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: 20 Oct 1994 01:00:59 GMT
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Alan Cox (iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk) wrote:
: In article <37ma2m$1g8@nyheter.chalmers.se> augustss@cs.chalmers.se (Lennart Augustsson) writes:
: >In article <37l61p$4qr@elaine.teleport.com> bmk@teleport.com (bmk) writes:
: >>    P.S. Linux is a fine product.  I'm not slamming it; I just happen to
: >>    have an irrational dislike of all that is System V. :)
: >
: >Irrational?  What's irrational about disliking System V. :-)

: Someone once summed it up as 'Administrators hate BSD, Users hate SYS5'. 
: Personally since all the essential BSD things (like the BSD ps arguments)
: are in Linux it has all the useful BSD'isms without the terror of the BSD
: cockups like the mess of expanding the BSD tty interface.

: Alan

Just because Linux has sysv runlevels and a few other things doesn't
make it sysv.  It has a LOT of BSD flavor stuff in it too.  

It's kinda like the inverse of AIX.

Joe

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 Joe Nardone                             nardone@clark.net

   "I always have fun.  It's just a matter of degree."