From: bhiksha@tifrvax.tifr.res.in Subject: Linux or BSD Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1993 03:42:12 GMT
Hi,
I have a PC 486 with 16MB RAM, WD80?? ethernet card and 2x260MB IDE drives.
I wish to load UNIX on it. My requirements are:
1) TCP/IP. I wish to be able to connect to the Local Area Network, and thru
a bridge on the net to a WAN.
2) NFS. I should be able to mount the local disk(s) on other m/cs on the LAN
and remote mount disks on the other m/cs.
3) I also need to maintain a dos partition, since i have a lot of important
stuff on the dos.
4) Standard C and Fortran compilers, if possible (gcc?)
Given the conditions, can anyone tell me the relative merits and
de-merits of Linux/386BSD. I understand that Linux is much easier to install
than *BSD and occupies much less disk-space and that the OS is also smaller.
On the other hand, *BSD is supposed to have a better networking...
What is /proc?
How robust are the filesystems? Also, given the tendency of the
IDE drives to occasionally develop bad sectors, how do the systems handle it?
How much communication is possible between dos/unix partitions?
Please reply to bhiksha@tifrvax.tifr.res.in
or bhiksha@tifrvax.bitnet
thanks
bhiksha