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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!netmbx.de!bb-data.de!news!mib From: mib@bb-data.de (Martin Ibert) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Date: 21 Nov 1995 09:02:49 GMT Organization: BB-DATA GmbH, Berlin, Germany Lines: 23 Message-ID: <MIB.95Nov21100249@laforge.bb-data.de> References: <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> <48ajue$3h6@muirwood.convex.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: laforge.ppe.bb-data.de In-reply-to: ldaffner@news.eng.convex.com's message of 14 Nov 1995 11:34:06 -0600 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:27499 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:9048 comp.unix.advocacy:11085 comp.unix.misc:19533 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:8853 In article <48ajue$3h6@muirwood.convex.com> ldaffner@news.eng.convex.com (Larry Daffner) writes: 2) UNIX model - There are essentially 3 main flavors of UNIX. POSIX, BSD and SysV. They're very similar, but they vary slightly, mostly in programming models. If you're not going to do any programming, this is probably not an issue either. FreeBSD tends toward the BSD model where they differ, so if you're familiar with SunOS4.x or some other BSD-style UNIX, you might be more comfortable on FreeBSD. Linux tends towards POSIX, which is more SysV-ish. So if you've been working on SunOs 5.x (Solaris 2) or HP-UX, you'd probably be slightly more comfortable with Linux. Again, if you're not programming, this is probably a non-issue. Hmmm. Personally, I've found that Linux leans more the BSD way when there are differences. That may be because I'm pretty much used to do things the POSIX way (if there is one), and that works well on all contemporary UN*Xiods. But with pseudo TTYs, for example, Linux is as vanilla BSD as they come. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Inform. Martin Ibert, BB-DATA GmbH, Brunnenstraße 111, D-13355 Berlin >> e-mail <mib@bb-data.de>, phone +49-30-245-56582, fax +49-30-245-56577 <<