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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!news.u.washington.edu!root From: "Steven G. Kargl" <kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: which Unix to choose? Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 09:57:58 -0800 Organization: Applied Physics Lab Lines: 31 Message-ID: <3280D1A6.41C67EA6@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <327F5727.179F@citynet.net> <0mU6Iw200YUh0eNJ40@andrew.cmu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: troutmask.apl.washington.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.sco.misc:28647 comp.unix.misc:26109 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:30720 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:4823 comp.unix.questions:90639 Ah, the war has started. G Sumner Hayes wrote: [snip] > So what to run? If you have a friend who runs one and think you'll > need some help, run what your friend runs. If you want to run Doom or > Quake at full speed, run Red Hat or Debian Linux. If you want a very > portable system, run NetBSD or OpenBSD. If you need to be able to run > both *BSD and Linux binaries, run one of the BSDs. If you are only on > an x86 and want to run BSD, consider FreeBSD. I think Linux's SMP > support is slightly better than *BSD these days, but check that before > taking my word for it. If you want to test on multiple platforms, run > whatever your friends aren't running and test on your system and > theirs. If you need to run 386BSD apps, run one of the BSDs. If you > want to run SCO apps, run Linux. If the SCO apps and Linux apps are compiled to run on an x86 architecture, then you can run them on FreeBSD. FreeBSD has emulation for (SCO) iBCS2, Linux a.out, and Linux elf binaries. Other than this small correction, I agree with much of what was said. Try as many as you can, and find out what works best for you. -- Steve finger kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu http://troutmask.apl.washington.edu/~kargl/sgk.html