From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) Subject: Re: 386bsd, linux: which runs more out of the box? Date: 29 Mar 1993 09:28:36 -0500
In article <C4M2Kt.1HI@sugar.neosoft.com> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da
Silva) writes:
>
> I've been told before that the AIX file system is incredible. Problem
> is, you have to run AIX to get it.
#define SARCASM 1
Yah, it just sucks. I can't stand loadable and unloadable device
drivers; runtime-modifiable partitioning with spanning, striping and
mirroring; adding and removing physical devices at runtime; multiplexed
device files; shared libraries done right; and reasonably good
compatibility with SysV, BSD, and POSIX.
Oh, and I really can't stand that the familiar `lpr' interface actually
talks to a generic batch queueing system, the simplified system for
starting and stopping daemons, and the hypertext manuals.
Yes, indeed, life with AIX is truly Hell.
#undef SARCASM
(NOT!)
`It will be a long, cold day in Hell before' I use another commercial
Unix system as my main platform.
The only reason I'm interested in 386BSD is that I see potential for it
to become at least as winning, and still remain free.
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