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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!ix.netcom.com!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!mr.net!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!sn.no!nntp.uio.no!news.apfel.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-koe1.dfn.de!main.Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: 29 Jan 1997 12:56:31 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <5cnhdv$mpn@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5c155c$p6u@raven.eva.net> <5c19pg$rf6@lynx.dac.neu.edu> <5c39sk$ddl@troma.rv.tis.com> <5c8jlm$50u@cynic.portal.ca> <5c9444$9vq@lace.colorado.edu> <5c98sl$gbn@cynic.portal.ca> <5ckluo$mbl@josie.abo.fi> <5cla1m$jip@cynic.portal.ca> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:154906 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5783 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2098 cjs@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson) wrote: (One `make' for the entire source tree.) > GNU/Linux variants can live without this only > because recompiling a full system is not a common thing on Linux > boxen. Just to be fair: Debian Linux is said to have a uniform tree, and i believe they are even further than the BSDs with this, in particular regarding third-party software. (How many third-party packages in *BSD drop PID files under /var/run? What about all the ugly X11 mess that drops files everywhere in the supposed-to-be-readonly /usr?) -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j