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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: 24 Mar 1997 11:39:01 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 14 Message-ID: <5h5p4l$6qn@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <slrn5fejrn.353.bet@onyx.interactive.net> <5d7spf$8n6@web.nmti.com> <5d9p55$t1h@news.ox.ac.uk> <5dadfr$cnu@web.nmti.com> <n4stf5.tq2.ln@zen> <E6sIEF.1qE@truffula.sj.ca.us> <5gpvf8$4h1$1@usenet.logical.net> <5gqtse$2am@news.sockets.net> <ysd67yma8a1.fsf@tuborg.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:166251 comp.os.linux.advocacy:89794 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2879 Urs Thuermann <thuerman@tuborg.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> wrote: > I have worked for years on SunOS 4.1.3 so I know somewhat BSDish > systems and I run Linux at home since 3 years. The main difference I > noticed is that GNU software often is bigger, more POSIXish and has > lots of options. Wrt. to POSIXness however, you simply can't compare a SunOS 4 BSD-like system with a 4.4BSD derivative. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j