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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!monu6!escargot!minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au!s902113 From: s902113@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Luke Mewburn) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 386BSD or LINUX? Date: 9 Nov 1992 02:13:03 GMT Organization: RMIT Computer Centre Lines: 31 Message-ID: <1dkhffINNj4t@escargot.xx.rmit.OZ.AU> References: <Nov.2.20.33.38.1992.18690@remus.rutgers.edu> <1992Nov4.201721.1036@gulasch.hanse.de> <1992Nov5.221949.9340@pool.info.sunyit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au > [Mine's better'n yours argument deleted.] Just a few of points before I ask whether or not Linux has a feature I've seen in others UN*Xs: - either of the free UN*Xs has it's merits, and the fact that both are free and net.supported is the biggest advantage I've ever seen. - some of the most unbiased and logical opinions about both OSs in c.u.bsd and c.o.linux have come from Linus himself... - I ran Linux 0.95 for a time when I was OS-swapping but dropped it for a couple of reasons (which are now invalid - mainly 14 char filenames and the fact that at that time, you had to have the time to follow many different releases - which I didn't) I switched to 386BSD 0.1 3 months ago, have had almost no probs with it on a no-name motherboard 6MB 386-sx with a 32MB/90MB dos/unix partition. BUT, I hold no particular bias towards either (I just haven't had the time to switch back to linux for a look :) - I intend to revamp at the release of 0.2, or January next year, whichever comes first. If 0.2 isn't out by then, or doesn't have those nice shared libraries (which are apparantly easy to do with gcc 2.3.1), I'll go back to Linux. Infact, I might have enough HD space to run BOTH! Enuf ranting, my question is: does linux have kconfig (will 386BSD get it)? How hard is it to integrate into the system?. FYI: kconfig is a program on A/UX (No flames about macs - I use all kinda platforms) which allows you to say, increase the # of pty's and reboot, and voila! you've got 'em. Quite handy. So, is it there on Linux? Is it possible on 386BSD Luke.