From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) Subject: Re: What files to grab ? Date: 3 Jun 1992 11:35:02 GMT
In article <1992May27.113053.4804@klaava.Helsinki.FI>, torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) writes:
> > Also, if Linux more reliable and stable than
> > BSD386 ?
>
> Haven't tested 386BSD, but I assume it will be pretty good in a month or
> two, and it's probably quite useable already. If you want NFS and full
> networking, it's the way to go. Comments, anyone?
Yupp -- a comment: 386bsd release 0.1 has been coming out next week ever
since it was released on April 17th (or so).
The system & sources supplied do NOT eneable you to re-compile a working
kernel. There is no X11 support, you need a co-processor (or one of the
hacked root disks that don't use floats).
A program like main() { for(;;) } will execute forever and you don't have a
chance to interrupt it by ^C. The kernel crashes about every two minutes
while some program waits for disk i/o.
On the other hand, your file names are of arbitrary length...
I'll see what Linux is like. Hope there are enough READMEs :)
Ciao,
Bernard
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