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From: kturvey@pug1.SprocketShop.com (Kenneth P. Turvey)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
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Date: 20 Mar 1997 23:52:18 GMT
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Urs Thuermann (thuerman@tuborg.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de) wrote:
: kturvey@pug1.SprocketShop.com (Kenneth P. Turvey) writes:
: 
: > I was running NetBSD previously.  I honestly think NetBSD is more
: > mature.  The operating system seems more complete..  
: 
: Could you tell more about the difference.  What is missing in Linux or
: in what respect do you think it is more immature?
: 
: I have worked for years on SunOS 4.1.3 so I know somewhat BSDish
: systems and I run Linux at home since 3 years.  The main difference I
: noticed is that GNU software often is bigger, more POSIXish and has
: lots of options.  Also, newer Linux distributions have Sys V style
: initialization (/sbin/init.d, the concept of runlevels,
: rc<runlevel>.d, ...).  It took me some time to get used to it, and
: now, while I still don't like it completely, I see it has advantages.
: 

I can't get into specifics.. It has been a while.  One thing that I do
remember specifically is the NetBSD man pages.  They were all there.
They were more complete.  

Many of the utilities under NetBSD had options that are not supported under
Linux (some are even in the Linux man pages).  Little things that were
annoying at first but are all but forgotten now.  

I am very pleased with Linux.  

-- 
Kenneth P. Turvey <kturvey@pug1.SprocketShop.com> 
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