From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Oct 11 22:41:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA29842 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 22:41:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from wakky.dyn.ml.org (lee@1Cust130.tnt1.manassas.va.da.uu.net [153.37.113.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA29824 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 22:41:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lee@wakky.dyn.ml.org) Received: (from lee@localhost) by wakky.dyn.ml.org (8.8.5/8.8.3) id BAA04911; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 01:41:38 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19971012014137.37529@wakky.dyn.ml.org> Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 01:41:37 -0400 From: Lee Cremeans To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD for Operating Systems Course Reply-To: hcremean@vt.edu References: <199710120351.WAA09609@pulsar.cs.wku.edu> <19971012135712.16377@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <19971012135712.16377@lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Sun, Oct 12, 1997 at 01:57:12PM +0930 X-OS: FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE X-Evil: microsoft.com Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, Oct 12, 1997 at 01:57:12PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > > It's been a while since I used Linux. A lot of people say this (that > System V people would be more at home with Linux), but with a couple > of minor exceptions (ps command, run states) I'm not sure that there's > much difference. In fact, Linux is probably a lot closer to FreeBSD > than it is to System V. To be honest, there isn't. It may have SysV init, and some of the device names have that "SysY-ish" look to them, but the directory layout and general utilities parallel 4.3/4.4BSD for the most part. -- Lee C. -- Manassas, VA, USA (WakkyMouse on DALnet #watertower) A! JW223 YWD+++^ri P&B++ SL+++^i GDF B&M KK--i MD+++i P++ I++++ Did $++ E5/10/70/3c/73ac Ee34/1/36 H2 PonPippi Ay77 M | hcremean (at) vt.edu FreeBSD/Linux/Unix hacker...Win95 and M$ evil! (go see www.freebsd.org) My home page: http://wakky.dyn.ml.org/~lee | finger me for geek code