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- From: lukka@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tuomas J Lukka)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: 386 BSD
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.085905.25749@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 08:59:05 GMT
- References: <726191386.AA03683@illusion.tpg.org> <1993Jan6.062816.26653@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> <C0F8L6.AB4@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <C0F8L6.AB4@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Jeff-Randall@uiuc.edu (Jeff Randall) writes:
- >othman@ntrc25.ntrc.ntu.ac.sg (othman (EEE/Div 4)) writes:
- >
- >>It is a fully networking OS.
- >>It has almost everything that Linux has except dos emulator and improved
- >>387 emulator.
-
- EXCEPT for one feature I consider pretty good:
- when you get the distribution, there's source for everything
- right there. If you get Linux, you have to hunt all over the place
- for the source if you want it.
-
- Also, 386BSD har ref.tfs.com, a central source tree, which I've talked
- about here.
-
- BUT there are bad sides to it, too: the distributions are much rarer,
- we're waiting for the next one which was hinted to arrive sometime
- in march or so. In Linux, you get a new kernel with lots of bug
- fixes every couple of weeks.
-
- One good thing about 386BSD: it's newsgroup has a LOT less FAQ's asked.
-
- Maybe we should make a file that makes an UNBIASED comparation between
- the two as a FAQ... anyone ready to work with me?
-
- >>20Mbyte for (networking)binaries only
- >>40Mbyte with X
- >>50Mbyte with Xview
- >
- >Not to start a flame war, but does 386BSD now have shared libs as well?
- >Those numbers seem to be more what a linux system ends up using.. and I've
- >been told by local 386BSD users that their systems are much larger than
- >a linux system (due to the lack of shared libs).
-
- No, not yet. They're in the works, by a mailing list on ref.tfs.com,
- 386bsd-sharedlibs. The implementation is going to be rather high-tech
- (non-kludged). The current linux shared libraries do their job but
- are very difficult to generate, have to have fixed addresses in the
- address space etc.
-
- NOTE:
- I'm not trying to start a flame war, however, I think that an
- unbiased mutual FAQ would serve everyone well. The current
- comments about 386BSD in the Linux FAQ are rather dated
- (saying for example, that only vanilla vga is supported by
- it's X etc. Linux and 386BSD both use XFree!)
- Myself, I used 386BSD until christmas, and at christmas
- changed to Linux. But when 386BSD 0.2 comes out,
- I might swap again, who knows. No fanatic feelings.
-
- TJL
-