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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:26200 comp.os.386bsd.misc:3619 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!ames!pendragon!laurel.jsc.nasa.gov!poirot From: poirot@laurel.jsc.nasa.gov (Daniel Poirot) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one? Date: 5 Oct 1994 15:52:05 GMT Organization: NASA Johnson Space Center Lines: 25 Message-ID: <36ui36$m9q@pendragon.jsc.nasa.gov> References: <36djkn$nm8@girtab.usc.edu> <36nd1u$d80@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <jeffpkCx4wtM.B64@netcom.com> <Cx7Fwx.qLH@ns1.nodak.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: laurel.jsc.nasa.gov Keywords: mosaic term telnet In article <Cx7Fwx.qLH@ns1.nodak.edu>, Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu> wrote: >In article <jeffpkCx4wtM.B64@netcom.com> jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman) writes: ><text removed> > >Technologies are quickly shared between all the OSes. So Linux, and *BSD are >actually have the whole group contributing the features found in the OS. >So what are the major things to look for when choosing an OS (IMHO)? > >1) the basic "flavor" of Unix you like. Besides being Posix compliant, I think > everyone can agree that Linux is a System V based OS and *BSD is BSD based > OS. there is a slight philosophy difference. How do you figure? Aside from /etc/inittab run state stuff, I can't think of a thing that makes Linux look like SysV (yuck). When I compile stuff off the Net, I configure for BSD. I hardly think that /proc counts either... -- Daniel Poirot poirot@aio.jsc.nasa.gov NASA JSC "The mind is a terrible thing." ER3 tel: (713)483-8793 Houston, TX 77058 fax: (713)483-3204