From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Sep 15 21:33:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA20453 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 21:33:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (root@andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA20448 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 21:33:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.8.7/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA21972; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 21:32:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 21:32:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson To: Chuck Robey cc: Paul Griffith , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Advice Needed - Unix System Admin In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 14 Sep 1997, Chuck Robey wrote: > There are very different flavors of Unix, that are fairly distinct. It's > probably fair to say that the top level breakdown is between the AT&T SVR4 > type, and the BSD4.4 type. You have to understand that they borrow from > each other heavily, and often in the borrowing get things badly screwed > up. > > There are a plethora of differences in other versions, but the largest > differences are between those 2 I listed above, and previous versions of > those systems. > > You _should_ learn at least one Unix from both of those categories, but do > one at a time. Choose one to get reasonably good at, and don't move to > another until you can do basic emergency recovery (playing with disks and > mount tools and processes). Porting software is one hell of a good way to > learn the programming differences, but probably not so good at teaching > sys admin-ship. So, FreeBSD is a good choice for the BSD4.4 type, a point I have sometimes made to computer science students. But what's a good SVR4 choice--any free ones? Any versions of Linux that qualify? Annelise