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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
Date: 24 Mar 1997 11:39:01 GMT
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Urs Thuermann <thuerman@tuborg.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> wrote:

> 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.

Wrt. to POSIXness however, you simply can't compare a SunOS 4 BSD-like
system with a 4.4BSD derivative.

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j