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- From: s902113@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Luke Mewburn)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: 386BSD or LINUX?
- Date: 9 Nov 1992 02:13:03 GMT
- Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
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- > [Mine's better'n yours argument deleted.]
-
- Just a few of points before I ask whether or not Linux
- has a feature I've seen in others UN*Xs:
- - either of the free UN*Xs has it's merits, and the fact that
- both are free and net.supported is the biggest advantage I've
- ever seen.
- - some of the most unbiased and logical opinions about both OSs
- in c.u.bsd and c.o.linux have come from Linus himself...
- - I ran Linux 0.95 for a time when I was OS-swapping but dropped
- it for a couple of reasons (which are now invalid - mainly
- 14 char filenames and the fact that at that time, you had to
- have the time to follow many different releases - which I didn't)
- I switched to 386BSD 0.1 3 months ago, have had almost no probs with
- it on a no-name motherboard 6MB 386-sx with a 32MB/90MB dos/unix
- partition. BUT, I hold no particular bias towards either (I just
- haven't had the time to switch back to linux for a look :)
- - I intend to revamp at the release of 0.2, or January next year,
- whichever comes first. If 0.2 isn't out by then, or doesn't have
- those nice shared libraries (which are apparantly easy to do with
- gcc 2.3.1), I'll go back to Linux. Infact, I might have enough
- HD space to run BOTH!
-
- Enuf ranting, my question is: does linux have kconfig (will 386BSD
- get it)? How hard is it to integrate into the system?.
- FYI: kconfig is a program on A/UX (No flames about macs - I use
- all kinda platforms) which allows you to say, increase the # of
- pty's and reboot, and voila! you've got 'em. Quite handy.
- So, is it there on Linux? Is it possible on 386BSD
-
- Luke.
-