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Subject: Re: BSD vs. Linux
Message-ID: <DHOLLAND.94Mar13163925@husc7.harvard.edu>
From: dholland@husc7.harvard.edu (David Holland)
Date: 13 Mar 94 16:39:25
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nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu's message of 11 Mar 1994 18:36:07 GMT said:
> >Don't forget that a 15 year advantage also means 15 years of
> >accumulated cruft.
>
> *WRONG*
Yes, it does. The Ultrix kernel (for example) has all sorts of cruft
in it associated with supporting obsolete terminal hardware and stuff
like that. Just for example. Are you going to convince me that BSD
doesn't suffer from the same sorts of problems? Re(?)-read _The
Mythical Man-Month_. All large systems eventually end up with lots of
unnecessary junk.
> >NetBSD (and the other 386 BSDs) require more system
> >than Linux does.
>
> *WRONG*
>
> [some stuff about disk space deleted]
Disk space isn't the issue. When I went looking around last summer, I
was told/found out from FAQs that Linux ran quite happily on a 386SX
with 4 megs of RAM, whereas *BSD didn't. Considering that I *have* a
386SX with 4 megs of RAM, this was an important issue.
Maybe I got wrong information; in that case somebody ought to fix up
the BSD FAQs.
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