From: cjl@libra.ntit.edu.tw (Jun-Lin Chen) Subject: Re: Comparison: NetBSD <-> Linux Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1993 08:59:46 GMT
In <246m0g$7c4@indigo.imp.ch>, Philippe Steindl (ilg@imp.ch) wrote:
: Hello Linuxers,
: I'm a happy Linux user. But there is one thing that disturbs me:
: It is VERY seldom, that source (e.g. X11 sources) compile right out of the box,
: even small things. I am not an expert, rather a u*x newbie. A friend told me of
: another free Unix, that runs on PC's, amiga, mac etc .. it is called NetBSD.
: Since this is true BSD, many sources should compile rather nice. NetBSD also
: offers X11 and all the rest, or am I wrong? So, I'd like to hear the advantages
: of each system. I don't want to start a flamewar and postings like "linux
: sucks" or "NetBSD sucks" won't help a lot. I'd like to see sort of a list
: containing advantages/disadvantages of each system from peaople who really
: know what they say (no "It is not my opinion, but I heard..." things).
: My institute is thinking of putting a freeu*x box in the net, but this would
: require CLEANLY running tcpip, which is surely not an advantage of linux right
: now .. NetBSD has BSD tcpip .. and this stuff works.
: I need arguments to convince them .-)
: cu
: Philippe
I need too, please post it to this newsgroup.
J.L. Chen