From: lukka@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tuomas J Lukka) Subject: Re: 386 BSD Date: 7 Jan 1993 19:14:06 GMT
>>EXCEPT for one feature I consider pretty good:
>>when you get the distribution, there's source for everything
>>right there. If you get Linux, you have to hunt all over the place
>I always find source codes first, and since I don't want to spend time in
>downloading big souces and compiling them, I have to haunt around the
>binaries. If I fail to find them, then I had to get the sources and
>compile.
Yes, but how is this relevant?
(And I mean not just source, but also the binaries ARE in the
distribution)...
>Also, 20M for 386BSD is a bogus.
So? When was that mentioned?
>You must have at least over 40M disk space to install 386BSD.
If you strip the system down, it can fit in quite narrow spaces...
Anyway, not to dispute about that, BSD is a system with more
disk space requirements.
BUT...
>Xserver for 386BSD is nonsense (to me). The size was around 10M !
It's nonsense because it was compiled with symbolic info!
strip X386
and the size is little over a meg.
Just trying to correct some of the WORST misunderstandings
about the free OS wars...
TJL