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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!wjin From: wjin@cs.uh.edu (W. Woody Jin) Subject: Re: 386BSD or LINUX? Message-ID: <1992Nov4.052106.29266@menudo.uh.edu> Sender: usenet@menudo.uh.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: modigliani.cs.uh.edu Organization: University of Houston References: <Nov.2.20.33.38.1992.18690@remus.rutgers.edu> Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 05:21:06 GMT Lines: 42 In article <Nov.2.20.33.38.1992.18690@remus.rutgers.edu> glenw@remus.rutgers.edu (Glenn Wasserman) writes: >As the subject heading says, which is it? Which is the better,more >supported operating system (I know I'm going to get a lot on this >one!) > >I have Linux running on my machine now, and I'm just wondering if this >is the right choice. Is 386BSD more stable? Version numbers say it : Linux 0.98 <--> 386BSD 0.1 p58. I have 386BSD 0.1p58 running (not properly). Still, 'ps -aux' does not work properly (reports 'nlist ... so so..' and all the CPU usages are 0 % ). Booting takes forever loop, fsck reporting some error messages (So, I had to type ^C and did fsck manually - this was a new problem after I did patches). I still cannot do 'mwrite' nor downloading or uploading using modem (tip, rz, and sz as described in INSTALL.NOTES). It just simply does not work (using given binaries, source codes, and 58 patchkits - I think I have to ask around how other people are doing). Installing DOS and 386BSD in a single IDE drive is an extreme headache, which I don't want to suggest you to try unless you have lots of free time or nothing to do. I could finally do it after spending a whole day. But there is something mysterious. Whenever I format C: drive (in DOS) it says "Trying to recover allocation unit xxxxx". >Is there any reason to switch? Not now, unless you are extremely intrigued (like me). I would not recommend current 386BSD to an average UNIX user who is busy doing his regular jobs. But when you hear 386bsd is stable, I am sure that 386bsd will be THE unix system on 386/486. And I am eagerly waiting for 386BSD 0.2. -- ____ ____ ____ ____________________________________ (___) _________________ | | | | | | W. Woody Jin (wjin@cs.uh.edu) (o o) Moo.... | | | |__| | PhD Student. Research Asst. o=======\ / I'm a Cow Lover. | | | | Dept. of Computer Science / | ||O My wife was born \ |---| |--| | University of Houston ` ||'---|| in Cow year. Mooo \____/|__| |__| _______________________________^^ ^^_____________________