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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!foxhound.dsto.gov.au!fang.dsto.gov.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!library.ucla.edu!agate!ames!olivea!decwrl!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: BSD vs. Linux Date: 10 Mar 1994 01:38:39 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman MT Lines: 20 Message-ID: <2lltmv$pg4@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <1994Mar8.141900.2906@wubios.wustl.edu> <2lk1jm$aor@simpson-01.cs.strath.ac.uk> <JK4rPn2.dysonj@delphi.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <JK4rPn2.dysonj@delphi.com>, John Dyson <dysonj@delphi.com> wrote: >Gary J Palmer C.S.3 <gpalmer@cs.strath.ac.uk> writes: > >>*BSD : Lots of easily available C progs to compile & run easily. >> Bigger kernel, so more memory needed. ..... >We (FreeBSD) have made significant inroads into running on small machines. >There are individuals running X on 4MB (but slowly.) And there's one person running it on a 1MB machine, but for the life of me I don't know how. :-) Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | Graduating May '94 with a BS in EE home #: (406) 586-0579 | - looking for work in CS/EE field.