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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!hydra!klaava!torvalds From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds) Subject: Re: Which is better ? Message-ID: <1993May27.210039.24550@klaava.Helsinki.FI> Organization: University of Helsinki References: <1u0jqg$9br@daffy.ldp.com> <1u0u1h$jt6@umcc.umcc.umich.edu> <3528@bigfoot.first.gmd.de> Date: Thu, 27 May 1993 21:00:39 GMT Lines: 17 In article <3528@bigfoot.first.gmd.de> ats@bsd386.first.gmd.de (Andreas Schulz) writes: > >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. Actually, almost none of the points you mentioned were relevant to linux: linux does have some sysv features, but more of the "sysvr4" kind, ie most of the good points of BSD are incorporated. Linux does lean toward sysv in that it tries to be POSIX, which tends to follow sysv closer than bsd, but on the other hand most of the linux people seem to come from academic places that use mostly BSD'ish systems. So linux has a lot of BSD (and notably SunOS) features due to the simple reason that people have gotten used to them and want them on their own machine. Linus