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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD
Date: 25 Aug 1995 11:09:07 +0200
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<chdemgt@state.systems.sa.gov.au> wrote:
>... The swap slice on FreeBSD is typically much larger than the Linux
>swap partition.
There are people known that easily put 100 MB of inactive processes
into their swap. >:-)
>On the other hand -- FreeBSD make is broken: it chokes on some GNU makefiles,
>and you even have to edit that of GNU make to compile it; -- FreeBSD sh is
It used to choke on a sole tab in a Makefile. This has rather been
intented to be a feature, but it turns out that many Makefiles have
this sort of crap in them, so this has been changed again (it won't be
in FreeBSD 2.1). In theory, make should have called a null command
for each of these lines. :-)
>broken: it can't handle some install scripts - I think I noticed that when
Submit a bug-report (send-pr) for any real (i.e., with reference to
Posix.2) brokeness of the /bin/sh, please.
>to look like a decent system. The inconsistency of options is annoying - I
>still don't know the BSD for ls -m but it doesn't matter any more. I assume
>there is an equivalent of find -iname and hope to find out what it is.
What are both for? (Sorry, i tried to setup a Linux box recently, but
failed. So i still cannot compare it myself.)
--
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. ;-)