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- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: What's LINUX? And other misc questions....
- Message-ID: <92248.014958U20565@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 06:49:58 GMT
- Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
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- First off, I looked for a FAQ list. The only thing I found was information to
- sites that had the LINUX source. This may be useful down the line, but not
- right now. Other searches such as a thread on "Linux history," more
- specifically, followups to the latter, seemed like a personal conversation
- and yielded nothing.
-
- Specifically, I would like to know what LINUX is? Yes, I know an operating
- system. Yes I know, very similar to UNIX. But what's the catch or impetus for
- people to own it? How old is it? How stable?
-
- There's MINIX which offers you all the source to the OS and utilities. There's
- Coherent, now in its fourth version, supporting COFF executables and a 32
- OS and compiler. Not to mention all its utilities and other facilities, such
- as UUCP.
-
- So, iterating, what's LINUX's tune? Why should one bother with it now that
- you can get BSD's UNIX for the 386 for free? MINIX and Coherent looked good,
- however personally I don't see much motivation to use them now that you can
- get the "Real McCoy," 386BSD UNIX for free.
-
- So what does LINUX offer that these other operating systems don't?
-
- Please respond directly, I would appreciate it. Thanks.
- Mario Pacheco
-