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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:30739 comp.os.386bsd.questions:939 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!usc!cs.utexas.edu!utnut!torn!watserv2.uwaterloo.ca!watmath!undergrad.math.waterloo.edu!mobius08.math.uwaterloo.ca!wgsteven From: wgsteven@mobius08.math.uwaterloo.ca (Warren Stevens) Subject: 386bsd, linux: which runs more out of the box? Message-ID: <C4BowL.DK3@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> Sender: news@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu Organization: University of Waterloo Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1993 03:41:08 GMT Lines: 19 Well, here's a twist on the old "which one's better" question: I'm thinking of installing Linux and/or 386bsd, and i have some pretty bizzare tastes in software i will want to run -- definately not your run-of-the-mill type stuff. Which system will give me the least hassle when i try and compile the source code? Which one will i spend the least amount of time porting software? Most of the software is developed for Suns, usually. Things that are readily ftp'able from public sites, just stuff that you might not see every day. Can anyone give me a hand? Thanks, Warren -- "An anthropologist at Tulane has just come back from a field trip to New Guinea with reports of a tribe so primitive that they have Tide but not new Tide with lemon-fresh Borax." -- David Letterman