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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:27377 comp.os.386bsd.misc:3766 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!wizard.uark.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!info!iialan From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox) Subject: Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one? Message-ID: <CxvLAz.5z7@info.swan.ac.uk> Sender: news@info.swan.ac.uk Nntp-Posting-Host: iifeak.swan.ac.uk Organization: Institute For Industrial Information Technology References: <CxM86z.3D8@bonkers.taronga.com> <37l61p$4qr@elaine.teleport.com> <37ma2m$1g8@nyheter.chalmers.se> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 15:49:46 GMT Lines: 20 In article <37ma2m$1g8@nyheter.chalmers.se> augustss@cs.chalmers.se (Lennart Augustsson) writes: >In article <37l61p$4qr@elaine.teleport.com> bmk@teleport.com (bmk) writes: >> P.S. Linux is a fine product. I'm not slamming it; I just happen to >> have an irrational dislike of all that is System V. :) > >Irrational? What's irrational about disliking System V. :-) Someone once summed it up as 'Administrators hate BSD, Users hate SYS5'. Personally since all the essential BSD things (like the BSD ps arguments) are in Linux it has all the useful BSD'isms without the terror of the BSD cockups like the mess of expanding the BSD tty interface. Alan -- ..-----------,,----------------------------,,----------------------------,, // Alan Cox // iialan@www.linux.org.uk // GW4PTS@GB7SWN.#45.GBR.EU // ``----------'`----------------------------'`----------------------------''