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- From: reny@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Yong Ren)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: 386BSD or LINUX?
- Message-ID: <BxDuvL.Isn@ucunix.san.uc.edu>
- Date: 8 Nov 92 05:50:09 GMT
- Organization: Univ. of Cincinnati
- Lines: 22
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- >As the subject heading says, which is it? Which is the better,more
- >supported operating system (I know I'm going to get a lot on this
- >one!)
- >...
-
- I have used both systems; at home, I have Linux installed on a
- 35 Meg partition of a 40M disk, and this is including X386 and TeX! (7M free)
- At work, I have to use 386BSD to connect to the ethernet since Linux
- cannot do it over a 3com (yet). The overall impression is that if you
- don't need networking and don't have a personal preference between
- bsd and sysv, go Linux. My personal experience is that
- a lot of programs compile and run (with minimal port) under Linux
- easily, but not so under 386BSD (a real mystery to me). I have
- never succeeded in keeping 386BSD and DOS peacefully on the same
- IDE drive, they are constantly destroying each other's partition
- table while this is not a problem with Linux. My 386BSD crashes
- once in a while, my linux hasn't got a single crash yet. The biggest
- headache about Linux is it develops too fast and I am really tired
- of catching up with the current patches since a lot of them are
- dealing with problems people have with other types of machine.
-
- reny
-