From: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (HJ Lu) Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: What NOT To POST Here!! Date: 6 Apr 1993 22:18:38 GMT
In article <1993Apr3.121931.300@marsu.tynet.sub.org>, root@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel) writes:
|> kranz@cs.tulane.edu (Barry Kranz) writes:
|>
|> >4. NO POSTINGS CONCERNING THE VALIDITY OF LINUX!!!
|> > this means no postings like (Why is Linux better then BSD?, WHAT SHOULD
|> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|>
|> I cannot agree with that. Linux and BSD are the two most popular
|> free Unix systems for PCs, so why shouldn't it be interesting to
|> discuss pros and cons of each? If anyone asked me "I want install
|> Unix on my PC. Which shall I take?", I would like to have some
There is no correct answer. Only one I can think of is "try both".
Since I only use Linux, I really don't know much about 386bsd first
hand. I can only give some impressions:
386bsd:
pros:
very reliable networking
cons:
no shared library (need more disk spaces)
GNU utilities are not default.
Linux:
pros:
shared library (need less disk spaces). FYI, it supports
dynamically linked library (DLL).
GNU utilities are default, they are the best.
better C library
support more hardware (?)
bugs are fixed very fast.
cons:
networking is not as reliable as 386bsd. but with Fred's
improvement coming soon, that may change.
I would go for Linux unless I need very reliable networking NOW, not
tomorrow or next week. But if I have a big enough disk, I probably will
install both of them.
|> information to argue.
|>
|> Regards, Markus.
|>
H.J.