Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 18:06:14 -0600 From: "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1014854774.434110@mired.org> To: Bsd Neophyte <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: primary differences between BSD-based and System V rel 4 *nixes Message-ID: <15478.56566.343039.47710@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <128923557@toto.iv>
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Bsd Neophyte <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com> types: > What are the differences between the two? Are they differences > really significant? There is no simple answer to that question. Part of it depends on what you're looking at - sysadmin, power user, casual user, developer, etc. Part of it depends on what you were used to, as most real systems provide a mix of BSD and System V features. I recall one organization that got it's first SysV system. I had a background with V6 and V7 system with extensions from Purdue, plus a little bit of BSD. I didn't notice a lot of difference, because my ingrained habits were from systems that predated the split. The people there who had never used anything but BSD systems noticed a *lot* of differences, because their ingrained habits were all pure BSD. What comes to mind to me /etc/rc vs. /etc/inittab to configure the system when you go multiuser. Someone else may well thing something else is the big difference. Want to tell us what parts of the system are significant to you, and what kind of system you were on before? <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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