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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.telstra.net!news00.visionet.com.au!chatsusi02.optusvision.com.au!news.aus.world.net!news.us.world.net!news-out.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!hunter.premier.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!204.179.98.2!news.visigenic.com!news From: Tim O'Neil <toneil@visigenic.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 12:50:12 +0000 Organization: Visigenic Software, Inc. Lines: 16 Message-ID: <33030E04.700B@visigenic.com> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5d299q$i6r@josie.abo.fi> <5d80q2$8cn@cynic.portal.ca> <0myX9U200YUf09B6Y0@andrew.cmu.edu> <5dg79o$fsi@cynic.portal.ca> <32FFC167.1749@pacificrim.net> Reply-To: toneil@visigenic.com NNTP-Posting-Host: vsi48.visigenic.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; U) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6013 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2519 comp.os.linux.misc:158755 Khan Klatt wrote: > I'd rather point out that Windows(95/NT) without "EXPLORER.EXE" or > Windows 3.1 without "PROGMAN.EXE" is as functional as Linux without (as > you say) > "init, sh, ls..." Actually, if I may pick a nit, windows 3.1/95 are indeed functionally useless, at least in any power sense, as they are clueless when it comes to process management. Which is the essential part of any modern operating system. NT on the other hand, does have a capable process management subsystem and you can get ports of grep, ps, tar, emacs, perl, even vi. Running it over ntfs it is a fully posix compliant system. You could blow off (although I wouldn't) explorer and it would behave much like any other unix box. I'd still rather run bsd though. Actually I run both.