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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!netnews.nwnet.net!serval!hlu From: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (HJ Lu) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Which is better ? Message-ID: <1993May28.050433.24371@serval.net.wsu.edu> Date: 28 May 93 05:04:33 GMT Article-I.D.: serval.1993May28.050433.24371 References: <1993May25.095207.25469@uxmail.ust.hk> <1u0jqg$9br@daffy.ldp.com> <1u0u1h$jt6@umcc.umcc.umich.edu> <3528@bigfoot.first.gmd.de> Sender: news@serval.net.wsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: School of EECS, Washington State University Lines: 62 In article <3528@bigfoot.first.gmd.de>, ats@bsd386.first.gmd.de (Andreas Schulz) writes: |> 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. So do I. |> 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. So do I. |> 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:-). I want more than that. |> 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. I don't have a network. |> 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. |> Yes. |> 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, That is not accurate. Linux is trying to be POSIX compliant. It also has LOTS of BSD extensions. I am using Linux. BTW, a new network code is on the way to the official Linux kernel. H.J. ---- |> 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