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From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Stability: FreeBSD, NetBSD, or Linux ?
Date: 4 May 1995 12:38:59 +0200
Organization: Private U**x site, Dresden.
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Bennett Todd <bet@ritz.mordor.com> wrote:
>For instance, I've often heard that Linux is the best-tuned of the three for
>particularly small configurations and/or single-user performance; I know
>I've run Linux quite happily, with no problems at all, on a 386SX-16 with
>4MB RAM, on a slow 30MB hard disk. Of course, that was without X:-).
[Only for the record: i'm also using FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 on a 386sx/16
notebook w/ 5 MB and a slow disk. The disk is 120 MB though, but it
does contain plenty of swap, too, as well as a complete development
environment, basic X11 and an emacs. If i'm patient enough to wait
until the slowish disk spit out its bits, i can even use X11 there. :I ]
> For another, BSD seems to
>have made some gratuitous changes that just irritate me; for instance,
>someone thought it'd be a cute trick to hide /etc/termcap under
>/usr/share/misc. I'm sure there's a fine argument for this move, but somehow
>the argument didn't make it into the implementation anywhere I could see;
>all we're left with is a gratuitous incompatibility.
Despite of that it's arguable whether this is a good idea or not (and
there's a symlink now, too), why does this cause gratuitous imcompat-
ibility? Who cares for the location of termcap except of the termcap
library itself?
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)