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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!gmdtub!bsd386!ats From: ats@bsd386.first.gmd.de (Andreas Schulz) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Which is better ? Message-ID: <3528@bigfoot.first.gmd.de> Date: 27 May 93 10:27:03 GMT References: <1993May25.095207.25469@uxmail.ust.hk> <1u0jqg$9br@daffy.ldp.com> <1u0u1h$jt6@umcc.umcc.umich.edu> Sender: news@bigfoot.first.gmd.de Organization: GMD-FIRST Lines: 39 In article <1u0u1h$jt6@umcc.umcc.umich.edu> lcd@umcc.umcc.umich.edu (Leon Dent) writes: > >As a Linux user I wonder about somthing posted earlier. Someone >said they wanted a BSD system for their home. Having come to Linux >from Minix (as I'm sure most early Linuxers did) I don't know what >in particular is appealing about a "BSD" system. Other than >familiarity with a BSD system (as opposed to something else) why >the desire? > Why i want a BSD lookalike system over a system V lookalike system: 1) I want long filenames, no fourteen character limit. 2) I want symlinks, if i have space problems on one partition, i use a symlink and put it into another partition. No please install the whole system new, if you didn't know your space requirements first. 3) I want the filename completion in the C shell. If i type some characters in a name and than press escape, it should beep:-). 4) I want functional network code, i had not seen a crash from the network code. And i use the network heavily on this machine. 5) And yes, the familiarity with the other BSD systems is nice, i can compile more things from the NET on the 386bsd box than on the new SOLARIS2.1 system on the SUN. I have learned UNIX from Version 7, over System III and System V Releases 1.0, 2.0, 2.1, 3.0 and SUNOS 3.3 ... 5.1. At one time i had ported kernel parts and utilities on System V, and it was nice to get the first SUN's and have a BSD system. If you learned it, you miss it. I don't know, how LINUX is, but i heard it is more the System V direction, than the BSD direction, and thats the reason, i had not tried it yet. -- ATS ( ats@first.gmd.de or ats@cs.tu-berlin.de ) Andreas Schulz GMD-FIRST O-1199 Berlin-Adlershof Rudower Chaussee 5 Gebaeude 13.7 Tel: +49-30-6392-1856 Germany/Europe