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- From: lukka@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tuomas J Lukka)
- Subject: Re: 386 BSD
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.191406.25765@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- References: <C0F8L6.AB4@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1993Jan6.085905.25749@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <1if32hINNghk@menudo.uh.edu>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 19:14:06 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- >>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
-
- >I always find source codes first, and since I don't want to spend time in
- >downloading big souces and compiling them, I have to haunt around the
- >binaries. If I fail to find them, then I had to get the sources and
- >compile.
-
- Yes, but how is this relevant?
- (And I mean not just source, but also the binaries ARE in the
- distribution)...
-
- >Also, 20M for 386BSD is a bogus.
-
- So? When was that mentioned?
-
- >You must have at least over 40M disk space to install 386BSD.
-
- If you strip the system down, it can fit in quite narrow spaces...
- Anyway, not to dispute about that, BSD is a system with more
- disk space requirements.
-
- BUT...
-
- >Xserver for 386BSD is nonsense (to me). The size was around 10M !
-
- It's nonsense because it was compiled with symbolic info!
- strip X386
- and the size is little over a meg.
-
- Just trying to correct some of the WORST misunderstandings
- about the free OS wars...
-
- TJL
-