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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!babbage.ece.uc.edu!ucunix.san.uc.edu!reny From: reny@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Yong Ren) Subject: Re: 386BSD or LINUX? Message-ID: <BxDuvL.Isn@ucunix.san.uc.edu> Organization: Univ. of Cincinnati Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 05:50:09 GMT Lines: 22 >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 used both systems; at home, I have Linux installed on a 35 Meg partition of a 40M disk, and this is including X386 and TeX! (7M free) At work, I have to use 386BSD to connect to the ethernet since Linux cannot do it over a 3com (yet). The overall impression is that if you don't need networking and don't have a personal preference between bsd and sysv, go Linux. My personal experience is that a lot of programs compile and run (with minimal port) under Linux easily, but not so under 386BSD (a real mystery to me). I have never succeeded in keeping 386BSD and DOS peacefully on the same IDE drive, they are constantly destroying each other's partition table while this is not a problem with Linux. My 386BSD crashes once in a while, my linux hasn't got a single crash yet. The biggest headache about Linux is it develops too fast and I am really tired of catching up with the current patches since a lot of them are dealing with problems people have with other types of machine. reny