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From: arnej@pvv.unit.no (Arne H. Juul)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: BSD vs. Linux
Date: 9 Mar 94 13:48:03
Organization: ProgramVareVerkstedet, Norwegian Institute of Technology
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In-reply-to: iiitac@swan.pyr's message of Wed, 9 Mar 1994 09:47:48 GMT
In article <1994Mar9.094748.4022@swan.pyr> iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox) writes:
> Most of the core utilities are the same - being the GNU utilities. Generally
> speaking it looks like this
>
> BSD Linux
> Shells bash,tcsh,ksh bash,tcsh,ksh
> X windows Xfree86 Xfree86
> Utilities GNU GNU
> Compiler GCC GCC
>
> etc...
This is (partly) wrong. Linux relies much more on the GNU utilities
and libraries than does BSD. This may be taken as a point in favour
of either OS depending on personal preferences. Also, some of the
utilities either are not GNU or are more-or-less modified.
The following table is probably more accurate, but bear in mind
that there really isn't any single 'BSD' and even less a single 'Linux'.
BSD Linux
Shell ash, csh bash, tcsh
C library BSD Homebrew GNU libc ???
vi nvi elvis
Compiler GCC (modified) GCC
Linker GNU ld (w/mods) GNU ld (w/even more mods)
X Xfree86 Xfree86
Utilities BSD GNU
> Apart from avoiding the BSD only oddities in programs and sticking to ANSI
> and POSIX (no bcopy etc) I treat them both as the same thing for applications
> work. I run Linux for the DOS emulator, the networking code and the fact it
> 'feels' faster to me. The soon to be released intel IBCS (commercial unix
> binary standard) support also matters here.
>
> Alan
> iiitac@pyr.swan.ac.uk
Running Linux for its networking code seems somewhat odd to me.
- Arne H. Juul