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- From: rchen@fraser.sfu.ca (Robert Chen)
- Subject: Re: 386 BSD
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.175208.11119@sfu.ca>
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- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <1993Jan6.062816.26653@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> <C0F8L6.AB4@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1993Jan6.085905.25749@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 17:52:08 GMT
- Lines: 59
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- In article <1993Jan6.085905.25749@klaava.Helsinki.FI> lukka@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tuomas J Lukka) writes:
- >In article <C0F8L6.AB4@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Jeff-Randall@uiuc.edu (Jeff Randall) writes:
- >
- >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.
-
- Some consider this good, some bad.
-
- >
- >One good thing about 386BSD: it's newsgroup has a LOT less FAQ's asked.
- >
-
- Is this good or not? This implies to me that a lot more people are
- learning about Unix in the Linux community where as 386BSD folk are
- perhaps made up of mainly Unix gurus. I personally prefer the former.
-
- >Maybe we should make a file that makes an UNBIASED comparation between
- >the two as a FAQ... anyone ready to work with me?
-
- I don't think this is possible and would be counter productive.
- Consider my responses to your "unbiased" comparison above and below. If
- it were truely unbiased, it would just contain facts about Linux and
- then facts about 386BSD and letting the readser decide. You can
- allready get this by reading the Linux FAQ and the 386BSD FAQ.
-
- >>Not to start a flame war, but does 386BSD now have shared libs as well?
- >
- >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
-
- Non-kludged? I doubt that those on the GCC channel would agree with
- your implication about the *working* linux shared library implementation.
- (is this another non-biased point?) BTW: I don't think that everyone
- would agree that PIC is particularly "high-tech." Regardless, there
- are people working on PIC for Linux right now and I would not be
- suprised if Linux had PIC before the next release of 386BSD. (I would
- personally find that rather humorous)
-
- >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!)
-
- The solution to this is to fix the FAQs.
-
- > 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
-
- Have fun.
-
- - Rob
-