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- From: wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Jolitz)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: 386BSD vs. Linux
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 23:00:26 GMT
- Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association
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- References: <1993Jan5.141227.21185@discus.technion.ac.il> <1k957dINNa81@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <C1KzwK.EC6@inews.Intel.COM>
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- In article <C1KzwK.EC6@inews.Intel.COM> dvanbibb@td2cad.intel.com (Dwaine VanBibber) writes:
- >Hello,
- > This is most likely an FAQ...but here goes. I'm interested in acquiring
- >a free/inexpensive Unix for my 486 PC at home. After following the DDJ
- >series on 386BSD I am somewhat interested in it; however, I've been
- >following the Linux as well. Which to choose? Maybe someone on the know
- >can tell me the relative merits of each. Thanks.
-
- Why not get both and try them out? Both 386BSD and Linux fit into
- partitions on your PC disk -- you even have room for MSDOS and
- something else, if you have the disk space.
-
- You can get a copy of 386BSD from agate.berkeley.edu (and it's mirror
- sites) via anonymous ftp. It is also available on CDROM from Austin
- Code Works (info@acw.com) [Note -- this is unpatched 0.1 -- you should
- get the patchkit in /unofficial on agate, and also the FAQ].
-
- While the "Porting" series ended in July, we still write feature articles
- for DDJ -- our December issue article discussed the 386BSD ISO-9660 filesystem
- format. I'll be detailing Rock Ridge extensions (with code) in the March
- [tent.] issue.
-
- Lynne Jolitz.
-