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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in3.uu.net!128.230.129.106!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Freebsd or Slackware Linux ? Date: 16 Feb 1997 20:50:55 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 27 Message-ID: <5e7rvf$qo0@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <32fd0363.41392688@news> <32FF86B6.2781E494@zxcv-pc.jumpnet.com> <5dol8k$l8v@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> <3301CCF9.548@cleveland.freenet.edu> <5dvac7$34m@rzstud2.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 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.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35665 uk1o@rzstud2.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Felix Schroeter) wrote: > >BTW-- if you want to learn UNIX then you go with FreeBSD. > >Why? Simple it is a BSD4.4 port. BSD ports include IBM-AIX > >DEC-ULTRIX, as well as HP and DG's UNIX platforms... fairly > >good company I'd say ( Sorry but SUN, if needed, is AT&T I > >think ;-)). > > I don't know about DG/UX, but HP-UX is a System V. HP-UX is said to be internal mucho BSD. I haven't seen source code yet, but what i've seen so far seemed to support this opinion, at least for the kernel. Most of the userland is SysV, however. DG/UX was just DG/UX, and nothing else, written from scratch. They used to have a fine multiprocessor kernel back in days when this feature has been very rare. They were proud of identifiers like obtainLockOnSomeObscureResourceAndDontWait() in their kernel source code :-). DG/UX's version 4.3x userland has been BSD, version 5.4x userland SVR4. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)