[Novalug] Which linux to install??

[Rob Payne]

s/Linux/UNIX/

PS - Happy Thanksgiving, all!

On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 02:58:50AM -0500, James Ewing Cottrell 3rd wrote:
> Tom Rhodes wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:11:27 -0500
> >James Ewing Cottrell 3rd <JECottrell3 at Comcast.NET> wrote:
> >
> >>You know SunOS was a nice system too. But you won't learn anything if 
> >>you don't keep up with modern systems.
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >Yes, but they gave us the vnode.
> >
> Nobody cares about vnodes. they are just internal abstractions for 
> plugging in differenft filesystems below the inode layer.
> 
> > And BSD gave us usr/bin and
> >usr/sbin for better separation of utilities.
> > 
> >
> BULL! That has been in Linux since the beginning!
> 
> >>>Personally I use gentoo on my desktops and slack/gentoo/debian/openbsd
> >>>on my servers.
> >>>     
> >>>
> >>BSD is a dead-end too. While 4.3BSD was at one time The Standard, 4.4BSD 
> >>gratuitously changed the man pages,  make, and several other stuff. 
> >>Their insistence on creating disk slices inside partitions is annoying 
> >>too.
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >I'm really not sure about this.  I'm not sure I agree about it
> >being the standard at one point.
> >
> It was the Standard system that was worth anything. BSD added the TCP/IP 
> stack to UNIX under a contract for the Department of Energy. AT&T's 
> System II was an abomination, as were all System V releases til System V 
> Release 4. All the interesting companies were BSD based. All the System 
> V ones were pathetic by comparison.
> 
> >t was a nice improvement to
> >the original UNIX via the "add on collection" but seemed to have
> >a large split between the users of BSD and original UNIX from Bell
> >Labs.
> > 
> >
> No. BSD was based on the UNIX 32V port don't at Bell Labs. The Reseach 
> Linux, the ones that Our Heroes ran (DMR et all) that became the 8th, 
> 9th, and 10 Edition, were 4.1BSD based. The people that developed System 
> III and V were not the sharpest knives in the drawer.
> 
> >>Finally, Get With The Program and put ISOs up on the mirrors! Don't make 
> >>me work that hard just to install the system.
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >???
> > 
> >
> Go to the OpenBSD site. Look for an ISO. You won't find it. You have to 
> build one yourself. Or buy one.
> 
> >Is this still an issue?  I thought we fixed this two years ago,
> >are some mirrors not following suit?
> > 
> >
> If  I missed it, send me the link. And pardon me.
> 
> >>>-Chris 
> >>>     
> >>>
> >>JIM
> >>
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