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From: Elie.Lab...@f420.n514.z17.illusion.tpg.org (Elie Labeca)
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Subject: 386 BSD
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Hello,
I'm looking for the 386 BSD, I believe it is free. How can I get it?
I would also like to know how much place does it takes on a hard disk,
how many diskettes, where to get it. And more specifications about it.
Thank you very much, I really appreciate. ('ve got tell ya, I love Unix!)
- Elie
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From: oth...@ntrc25.ntrc.ntu.ac.sg (othman (EEE/Div 4))
Subject: Re: 386 BSD
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Elie Labeca (Elie.Lab...@f420.n514.z17.illusion.tpg.org) wrote:
: Hello,
:
: I'm looking for the 386 BSD, I believe it is free. How can I get it?
: I would also like to know how much place does it takes on a hard disk,
: how many diskettes, where to get it. And more specifications about it.
agate.berkeley.edu
It is a fully networking OS.
It has almost everything that Linux has except dos emulator and improved
387 emulator.
20Mbyte for (networking)binaries only
40Mbyte with X
50Mbyte with Xview
:
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From: Jeff-Rand...@uiuc.edu (Jeff Randall)
Subject: Re: 386 BSD
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oth...@ntrc25.ntrc.ntu.ac.sg (othman (EEE/Div 4)) writes:
>It is a fully networking OS.
>It has almost everything that Linux has except dos emulator and improved
>387 emulator.
>20Mbyte for (networking)binaries only
>40Mbyte with X
>50Mbyte with Xview
Not to start a flame war, but does 386BSD now have shared libs as well?
Those numbers seem to be more what a linux system ends up using.. and I've
been told by local 386BSD users that their systems are much larger than
a linux system (due to the lack of shared libs).
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From: lu...@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tuomas J Lukka)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: 386 BSD
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Date: 6 Jan 93 08:59:05 GMT
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In article <C0F8L6....@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Jeff-Rand...@uiuc.edu (Jeff Randall) writes:
>oth...@ntrc25.ntrc.ntu.ac.sg (othman (EEE/Div 4)) writes:
>
>>It is a fully networking OS.
>>It has almost everything that Linux has except dos emulator and improved
>>387 emulator.
EXCEPT for one feature I consider pretty good:
when you get the distribution, there's source for everything
right there. If you get Linux, you have to hunt all over the place
for the source if you want it.
Also, 386BSD har ref.tfs.com, a central source tree, which I've talked
about here.
BUT there are bad sides to it, too: the distributions are much rarer,
we're waiting for the next one which was hinted to arrive sometime
in march or so. In Linux, you get a new kernel with lots of bug
fixes every couple of weeks.
One good thing about 386BSD: it's newsgroup has a LOT less FAQ's asked.
Maybe we should make a file that makes an UNBIASED comparation between
the two as a FAQ... anyone ready to work with me?
>>20Mbyte for (networking)binaries only
>>40Mbyte with X
>>50Mbyte with Xview
>
>Not to start a flame war, but does 386BSD now have shared libs as well?
>Those numbers seem to be more what a linux system ends up using.. and I've
>been told by local 386BSD users that their systems are much larger than
>a linux system (due to the lack of shared libs).
No, not yet. They're in the works, by a mailing list on ref.tfs.com,
386bsd-sharedlibs. The implementation is going to be rather high-tech
(non-kludged). The current linux shared libraries do their job but
are very difficult to generate, have to have fixed addresses in the
address space etc.
NOTE:
I'm not trying to start a flame war, however, I think that an
unbiased mutual FAQ would serve everyone well. The current
comments about 386BSD in the Linux FAQ are rather dated
(saying for example, that only vanilla vga is supported by
it's X etc. Linux and 386BSD both use XFree!)
Myself, I used 386BSD until christmas, and at christmas
changed to Linux. But when 386BSD 0.2 comes out,
I might swap again, who knows. No fanatic feelings.
TJL
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From: w...@cs.uh.edu (W. Woody Jin)
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Subject: Re: 386 BSD
Date: 6 Jan 1993 16:57:53 GMT
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In article <1993Jan6.085905.25...@klaava.Helsinki.FI> lu...@klaava.Helsinki.FI
(Tuomas J Lukka) writes:
>In article <C0F8L6....@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Jeff-Rand...@uiuc.edu (Jeff Randall) writes:
>>oth...@ntrc25.ntrc.ntu.ac.sg (othman (EEE/Div 4)) writes:
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>>>It is a fully networking OS.
>>>It has almost everything that Linux has except dos emulator and improved
>>>387 emulator.
>
>EXCEPT for one feature I consider pretty good:
>when you get the distribution, there's source for everything
>right there. If you get Linux, you have to hunt all over the place
>for the source if you want it.
Maybe opposite way.
I always find source codes first, and since I don't want to spend time in
downloading big souces and compiling them, I have to haunt around the
binaries. If I fail to find them, then I had to get the sources and
compile.
Also, 20M for 386BSD is a bogus.
You must have at least over 40M disk space to install 386BSD.
Xserver for 386BSD is nonsense (to me). The size was around 10M !
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From: lu...@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tuomas J Lukka)
Subject: Re: 386 BSD
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>>EXCEPT for one feature I consider pretty good:
>>when you get the distribution, there's source for everything
>>right there. If you get Linux, you have to hunt all over the place
>I always find source codes first, and since I don't want to spend time in
>downloading big souces and compiling them, I have to haunt around the
>binaries. If I fail to find them, then I had to get the sources and
>compile.
Yes, but how is this relevant?
(And I mean not just source, but also the binaries ARE in the
distribution)...
>Also, 20M for 386BSD is a bogus.
So? When was that mentioned?
>You must have at least over 40M disk space to install 386BSD.
If you strip the system down, it can fit in quite narrow spaces...
Anyway, not to dispute about that, BSD is a system with more
disk space requirements.
BUT...
>Xserver for 386BSD is nonsense (to me). The size was around 10M !
It's nonsense because it was compiled with symbolic info!
strip X386
and the size is little over a meg.
Just trying to correct some of the WORST misunderstandings
about the free OS wars...
TJL
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From: danub...@halcyon.com (Joseph R. Pannon)
Subject: Re: 386 BSD
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In article <1993Jan7.191406.25...@klaava.Helsinki.FI> lu...@klaava.Helsinki.FI
(Tuomas J Lukka) writes:
One of the reasons that originally steered me toward Linux instead of
386BSD was the latter's low version number (0.1) compared to Linux (0.97
at the time). From what I hear from you guys, that big difference may not be
justified by the features offered by both. What may be behind Jolitz's
thinking by assigning such an early version number to it? What does he
think he should have in addition to existing features to qualify for
version 1.0?
Any ideas?
Joe Pannon
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From: e...@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale)
Subject: Re: 386 BSD
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In article <1993Jan7.205455....@nwnexus.WA.COM> danub...@halcyon.com
(Joseph R. Pannon) writes:
>In article <1993Jan7.191406.25...@klaava.Helsinki.FI> lu...@klaava.Helsinki.FI
>(Tuomas J Lukka) writes:
>
>One of the reasons that originally steered me toward Linux instead of
>386BSD was the latter's low version number (0.1) compared to Linux (0.97
>at the time). From what I hear from you guys, that big difference may not be
>justified by the features offered by both. What may be behind Jolitz's
>thinking by assigning such an early version number to it? What does he
>think he should have in addition to existing features to qualify for
>version 1.0?
You should ask Bill this question if you want a real answer. I know
that 1 year ago, linux was at version 0.12 or so, and that the next release
after 0.12 was 0.95 because Linus felt that we were getting closer to a stable
system. Still, this does not prove anything when comparing linux to 386bsd.
-Eric
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From: wjol...@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Jolitz)
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Subject: Re: 386 BSD
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>In article <1993Jan7.191406.25...@klaava.Helsinki.FI> lu...@klaava.Helsinki.FI
>(Tuomas J Lukka) writes:
>
>One of the reasons that originally steered me toward Linux instead of
>386BSD was the latter's low version number (0.1) compared to Linux (0.97
>at the time). From what I hear from you guys, that big difference may not be
>justified by the features offered by both. What may be behind Jolitz's
>thinking by assigning such an early version number to it? What does he
>think he should have in addition to existing features to qualify for
>version 1.0?
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Joe Pannon
There appears to be some confusion as to how to view 386BSD and
the work associated with it. While BSD goals and procedures are
well-known among the educational/research sites which have formed
the core support for BSD releases over the last 12 years, they
may not be familiar (rightly) to the broader audiences now reached
by 386BSD and Linux.
First of all, 386BSD is intended for research and educational purposes.
There are a number of email Special Interest Groups (SIGs) which are
chartered to do not only short-term work (such as enhancements to
drivers, kernel fixes, new drivers and the like) but also examine
some longer-term items, such as unicode implemention, new approaches
to driver design, very high-speed networking, multithreading, and
so forth. These items are slow and tedious to do correctly, but very
rewarding in the long-term. Some of these items which are in-progress
even now will not appear until 1.0 and later, but they must be designed
now, if they are ever to be a part of the future.
For immediate work and test, the /unofficial directory was established
as a base of operation for new work to be tested/used as needed. Hence,
new work to be included in future releases is thoroughly tested before
release engineering by the 386BSD user community first. In addition,
it is hoped that the call for votes (announced yesterday in news.groups)
will be favorable for the establishment of the 386bsd newsgroups, thus
channeling people to appropriate people for problems, solutions, new work,
announcements, and so forth, and eliminating the confusion which
currently and understandably exists.
For example, with respect to shared libraries, just as with Linux,
there already exist several shared library implementations
which work with 386BSD and are available for test/use. These versions
were announced a month ago in comp.unix.bsd, and are among the many
new items done by the 386BSD user community and made available to any
interested party.
There is also a research group which is attempting to complete
a more extensive and difficult shared library implementation which
will have serious ramifications on other areas of the system.
Should anyone wish shared libraries now, one can get a version which
works and is quite suitable for most purposes. However, that is
not the end of the matter for 386BSD.
Many of the people who work on 386BSD do so in order to continue the
tradition of innovation which is the hallmark of BSD over the decade.
BSD has been the basis for much exciting new work which has been incorporated
into research and commercial projects, and we hope to encourage
challanging new ideas to create a future, and not just accommodate the present.
Regarding 386BSD version numbering. All versions of 386BSD follow
BSD release numbering guidelines. Release 0.0 was the base 386BSD
release. Generally, even numbered releases (i.e. 2.8BSD, 4.0BSD, 4.2BSD
and 386BSD 0.2) incorporate new research or work. As a consequence,
the release may not be as robust as desired, since establishment of
new paradigms can often perturb other areas of the system. Odd numbered
releases (2.9BSD, 4.1BSD, 4.3BSD in it's various incarnations,
and 386BSD 0.1) on the other hand are generally more comprehensive
and fixed versions of the previous releases. However, as more "things"
are added to these releases, the paradigms and implementations tend
to sag under the weight the additional items, thus requiring redesign
or new design of the system.
Each release of 386BSD has a planned area of technology to be addressed.
This will take some time. But we hope that overall the correct
design decisions will be the basis for the next generation of
technology as well, and not just another "unix" system. This is
a very ambitious goal, but then again, BSD has always been a
very ambitious (and audacious) program from the beginning.
I hope this clarifies matters. I urge you to vote to establish the
386bsd newsgroups, so we can better meet people's needs and interest.
We are always open to feedback from all users of both 386BSD and Linux,
in the hopes that both groups can encourage creativity and exploration
of new ideas.
Thank you for your time.
Lynne Greer Jolitz
386BSD Development
ljol...@cardio.ucsf.edu