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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!usenet-feed.umr.edu!bolsen From: bolsen@cs.umr.edu (Brian Olsen) Subject: Linux user's questions Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1993 14:55:05 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: mcs213h.cs.umr.edu Organization: University of Missouri - Rolla Sender: cnews@umr.edu (UMR Usenet News Administration) Originator: bolsen@mcs213h.cs.umr.edu Message-ID: <1993Jun22.145505.528@umr.edu> Lines: 33 I've been using linux for quite a while, long before 386BSD came out. Just recently I've been working with a professor using X and xview to develop a digital signal processing program. While I've been pleased in the past with linux, throwing it in a networking environment for development of these X apps has been trying. I'm not sure if BSD will be more stable or not, so I'm wanting some impartial answers on some of these questions. First: I'm running a 486-33Mhz with 64k cache, 8M of ram, an S3 local bus SVGA adaptor and a 210M hard drive. Is there a 386BSD XS3? Will my 8Megs of ram be too little to efficiently run a c++ compile because c++ starts to swap a bit with just a compile. Are shared libs available? At the moment I have a full blown distribution of linux with everything I can think of and I've still about 90 Megs free for the programming project. The executables that are generated are about 1/8 the size of the ones that are generated on the professor's sun station. And, how stable is the networking code? Thanks in advance for any replies. Brian bolsen@cs.umr.edu bolsen@ee.umr.edu