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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2831 comp.os.linux.misc:20314 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.clark.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!swidir.switch.ch!newsfeed.ACO.net!Austria.EU.net!EU.net!uunet!news.gcr.com!news.widomaker.com!escape!shendrix From: shendrix@escape.widomaker.com (Shannon Hendrix) Subject: Re: Usefulness of BSD/Linux Source Knowledge (was BSD vs. LINUX) Message-ID: <1994Jul24.185248.5906@escape.widomaker.com> Organization: HNN UNIX Network Date: Sun, 24 Jul 1994 18:52:48 GMT References: <30jqp1$ees@grex.cyberspace.org> <1994Jul21.182603.15882@belvedere.sbay.org> <2NsBkiCqLiLU068yn@cs.odu.edu> <30pn0a$9rf@hermes.unt.edu> <CtEuyA.En1@world.std.com> X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Lines: 52 Lee E Parsons (lparsons@world.std.com) wrote: : Which brings up the reason I went BSD instead of Linux. When I set up my : PC I didn't just want a unix at home. I wanted a unix at home I could : hack, destroy, change and review. And I wanted all of these things with : the assurence that what I was learning during the above process had some : applicability to something other than Linux. Linux is probably more applicable to the future of UNIX than BSD. It's following POSIX very closely and all other OS are going that way too. It's also very much like SysV and has most of the BSD stuff in it. Also, SunOS is no longer a port of BSD. It's yet another version of SVR4.2 now, not BSD. It's been that way since Solaris 2 was released and it is the future, like it or not. : With Linux I felt I would be spending my time learning the guts of : a system written by Linus. While that may be very educational it doesnt : do much for my ability to say "Our OS works like THIS" He wrote it following POSIX and standard UNIX so it's mostly the same. : Before somebody flames me let me provide an example. If I wanted to : understand how Ultrix computes the loadaverage I could go to FreeBSD : and get a pretty good idea how it is done. Where does Linux get its : code for the loadaverage? Is it a total rewrite? If so how can I : make any other choice except FreeBSD. Because BSD is dead. I wish it were not so because I prefer BSD but SVR4.2 is the future of UNIX, not BSD. You actually made a wrong choice by your own critieria. Anyway, the two are fine Unices so you should choose what you like best. What you learn in either one is good for you and the differences between the two are shrinking because SVR4.2 and Linux have most of BSD in them and BSD is getting a lot of the stuff from SysV in it. Like I said, all OS are merging and your learning won't be wasted either way. : Am I not putting enough faith in Linux? Too much in FreeBSD? No, you just argued against yourself a lot. : -- : Regards, : Lee E. Parsons : Systems Oracle DBA lparsons@world.std.com -- csh --------------------------------------------------------------------------- shendrix@escape.widomaker.com (UUCP) | Amd486/40 Linux system shendrix@pcs.cnu.edu (Internet) | Christopher Newport University