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From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: Is BSD dead?
Date: 25 Jan 1996 16:34:50 GMT
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bry@netcom.com (Bryan Althaus) wrote:

[snip]
      
>: > Luckily Caldera choose Linux as most people are, and more importantly
>: > Linux trys to be POSIX compliant meaning their is no BSD or SYSV bias!
>
>: No, there is a Linux bias.  :)  More than half of the "different variants
>: of free UNIX" are different Linux versions.
>
>No matter what Linux you have, the kernel was done by the linux kernel group which
>Linus oversees.  So you either have a 1.2x kernel or a 1.3x (development) kernel.
>
>Caldera is based on RedHat Software's which uses the latest 1.2x kernel.

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On a UnixWare box:

ps -ef
     UID   PID  PPID  C    STIME TTY      TIME COMD
    root     0     0  0   Jan 22 ?        0:00 sched
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On BSDI 2.01

ps aux
USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS  TT  STAT STARTED       TIME COMMAND
michaelh 15907  3.0  0.4   160  244  p0  R+    1:25AM    0:00.04 ps -aux
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On Red Hat Linux

ps -ef
  PID TTY STAT  TIME COMMAND
 2833 pp7 S     0:00 -bash + TERM=vt102 HOME=/home/michaelh 
PATH=/usr/local/bin:

ps aux
USER       PID %CPU %MEM SIZE  RSS TTY STAT START   TIME COMMAND
bin         72  0.0  0.0   68    0  ?  SW   16:06   0:00 (rpc.portmap)

What do the other Linux variations do?

--
Mike Hancock
michaelh@cet.co.jp