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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:27381 comp.os.386bsd.misc:3767 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!caen!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.clark.net!nardone 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? Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Date: 20 Oct 1994 01:00:59 GMT Organization: Eighth wonder of the world Lines: 32 Message-ID: <384fgb$5a1@clarknet.clark.net> References: <CxM86z.3D8@bonkers.taronga.com> <37l61p$4qr@elaine.teleport.com> <37ma2m$1g8@nyheter.chalmers.se> <CxvLAz.5z7@info.swan.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: clark.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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 : -- : ..-----------,,----------------------------,,----------------------------,, : // Alan Cox // iialan@www.linux.org.uk // GW4PTS@GB7SWN.#45.GBR.EU // : ``----------'`----------------------------'`----------------------------'' -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Joe Nardone nardone@clark.net "I always have fun. It's just a matter of degree."