From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 22 16: 6:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AE09837B405 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 16:06:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 29663 invoked by uid 100); 23 Feb 2002 00:06:14 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15478.56566.343039.47710@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 18:06:14 -0600 To: Bsd Neophyte Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: primary differences between BSD-based and System V rel 4 *nixes In-Reply-To: <128923557@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.46 (Python 2.2; freebsd-4.5-STABLE-i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bsd Neophyte 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? 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