Paul Colquhoun wrote:
> On 6 Aug 2006 23:12:47 -0700, (E-Mail Removed) <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> | hey guys
> | I am unable to get the ans for this Q... Please help.
> | What is the primary difference between a system 5 & BSD style Unix
> | operating system?
> | Thanx Shaun
>
>
> I think everybody would have their own opinion as to what "the primary"
> difference would be.
>
> What point of view are you coming from? User, Programmer, Sysadmin?
>
> Programmers would probably notice that some libraries/header files are
> different (or on different places)
>
> Users would notice different options on some commands, and different
> output formats.
>
> For a sysadmin the biggest difference is probably the startup script
> layout.
>
>
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My first exposure to any sort of UN*X was in college, but I thought it
was irrrelevant so I don't even know what OS it was running. My first
exposure to some UN*X that I was INTERESTED in, was Linux. Some years
later I tried FreeBSD, and freaked because they have /etc/init rather
than /etc/inittab. I couldn't wrap my brain around that, as trivial as
it really is. Believe it or not, I first rejected FreeBSD on those
grounds. I figured that if they would change that, nothing was sacred.
Turns out that almost everything is sacred, for both sides. Holy wars
have been fought....
I think the biggest (most noticeable) difference is if you are on a
commercial OS. BSD's command options are significantly different from
SysV's. On the open source distributions, the GNU flavors tend to hold
sway a bit more and so you generally get the options from both sides,
or at least a thoughtful merge of both sides.
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