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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: UNIX or LINUX? Suggestions Please!
Date: 22 Apr 1996 09:55:44 GMT
Organization: interface business GmbH Dresden
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Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch)
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Jeff Lloyd <jlloyd@io.org> writes:
>> Both BSD and Linux are UNIX, FreeBSD is the one you should consider, and
(Btw: They are Unix or unix or UN*X. But they are not UNIX, since
this is a trademark in the US and a few other countries. Ask whoever
owns the label today...)
>Is X-windows available for FreeBSD? I assume it is.... But I guess I mean
It is, and XFree86 is just the same as for Linux. There's also a good
quality commercial Xserver available from Xinside.
>is Motif available or just the Xfree stuff? I am used to Solaris at school,
There's a Motif, but it's payware, and the distribution i've seen (by
Lasermoon, UK) is best described with a single word: terrible. Let's
hope that Xinside (the vendor of Accelerated X) will come up with its
Motif RSN.
>and would preferably like something compatible. Maybe I should ask around
>in a Solaris newsgroup? I may be working on something different this
>summer though, so I will have to wait and see..
Slowaris (i.e., Slowaris 2.X) is SysV-based. Linux is not SysV-based,
but resembles it somewhat more than BSD. The differences are mostly
in the system maintenance area however, the userland is more similar
these days.
>> If you're going to use BSD don't use the 'current' source.
/ \
>What is this?................................. |
The development sources of each of the BSD distributions. Roughly
comparable with Linux 1.3.something (or what their development level
is actually called now -- i dunno), with the exception that all BSD's
handle the complete system, not only the kernel.
The latest release versions are: NetBSD 1.1, FreeBSD 2.1. (OpenBSD?
I don't know.)
--
J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j