From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 10 22:09:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA12082 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 10 May 1997 22:09:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iceberg.anchorage.net. (root@iceberg.anchorage.net [207.14.72.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA12070 for ; Sat, 10 May 1997 22:09:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aak.anchorage.net (ai-132 [207.14.72.132]) by iceberg.anchorage.net. (8.6.11/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA28443; Sat, 10 May 1997 20:07:14 -0800 Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 20:59:54 -0800 (AKDT) From: Steve Howe X-Sender: abc@aak.anchorage.net To: Jeremy & Beth cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vs. Linux In-Reply-To: <337520D5.3F67@frontiernet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 10 May 1997, Jeremy & Beth wrote: > I'm currently a CS student and we've been using the Sun System V OS. My > quick question is - what would be the closest match to System V, > Slackware Linux or FreeBSD? Is there a difference in the applications? > or is it just a matter of the kernel? > > Thanks in advance, > jeremy BSD and System V are opposite sides of the spectrum - so to speak, and Linux is in the middle, using features from each. but you probably could care less unless your going to hack the "lower-levels" ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sleep: a sign a caffeine deprivation ... http://www.anchorage.net/~un_x -------------------------------------------------------------------------