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Date:      Sun, 12 Oct 1997 01:41:37 -0400
From:      Lee Cremeans <lee@wakky.dyn.ml.org>
To:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD for Operating Systems Course
Message-ID:  <19971012014137.37529@wakky.dyn.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <19971012135712.16377@lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Sun, Oct 12, 1997 at 01:57:12PM %2B0930
References:  <199710120351.WAA09609@pulsar.cs.wku.edu> <19971012135712.16377@lemis.com>

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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. 

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