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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!newshost.marcam.com!uunet!gail.ripco.com!karlm From: karlm@ripco.com (Karl Meyer) Subject: Re: Differences between AT&T, BSD, SCO, Netware and Linux UNIX Message-ID: <D5J7Go.Fs8@rci.ripco.com> Sender: usenet@rci.ripco.com (Net News Admin) Organization: Ripco Internet BBS, Chicago X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <alock.8.001563A2@ozemail.com.au> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 11:48:23 GMT Lines: 31 Alan Lock (alock@ozemail.com.au) wrote: : Hello World, : I am planning to change my OS from MS-DOS to UNIX. As I know, there are : several versions of UNIX available in the market such as AT&T, BSD, SCO, : Netware, Linux and ...... etc. Since I am a novice to UNIX, is there anybody : can tell me what are their differences? Many thanks. I've been researching the same thing myself and here is what I've found: The Linux newsgroups get around 10 X the traffic that the BSD ones do and I subscribed to all of them I could find out about. While it may not indicate that more are using Linux there are sure more who are active in the newsgroups which means to me that I'm more likely to get a question answered. I've found a number of books devoted to Linux and how to get it running. I've even been able to help a few others by what I've read even having not installed it yet. I have yet to see a book on any of the free BSD versions. It may be that there are some for comercial versions that apply (if so somebody let me know), but I have no idea which ones. There seem to be quite a few different companies making cd-rom installations for Linux with various distributions on them. I've heard of one for BSD. I'm sure there are significant differences between the two. There are likely advantages and disadvantges to both. My own choice is going to be to install Linux since I feel I'll get better support from those producing it as well as using it. Since I've never run a Unix or Unix like system before this is more important than some esoteric differences that might or might not make BSD a superior OS. I may try BSD once I've become a bit more comfortable with the way Linux works if I have the time and find there is a reason to.