From: william E Davidsen (davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM)
Date: 02/22/93


From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
Subject: Re: TAMU the killer app?
Date: 22 Feb 1993 14:02:18 GMT

In article <1993Feb19.212706.15983@nwnexus.WA.COM>, danubius@halcyon.com (Joseph R. Pannon) writes:

| I wonder if it would be worth a thread comparing SLS with TAMU and their
| respective merits. Perhaps there are some of you who tried both.
| Heck, if we could run such a long thread comparing Linux with 386BSD,
| why not comparing SLS with TAMU?

  You could well start a thread comparing the "old" TAMU (0.96c+) with
the current release. The old release is small, fast, and breaks X into a
separate set of disks, the new has one huge set of disks for everything,
and selectively loads X or not.

  I really like TAMU, and it used to include the kernel source so you
could change options (I think it still does, but I don't have it up
right now). It has a nice X implementation which lets you go look for
useful modes on your system, and which may find things you never dreamed
you had. That's been the case on a number of systems I've used.

  TAMU has a single disk boot and maintenence setup which is nice even
if you run SLS, because you can get the system up and check out
problems. I like it a lot.

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