Re: [fd-dev] [OT] Linux vs. BSD

2002-12-12 Thread Day Brown
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In general, I dont see the error recovery option vaible in Linux, Maybe its a lack of familiarity, because I am always _much_ more knowledgable about what's going on with a Linux system then with a DOS System. It does not just get stuck, you always can open other

Re: [fd-dev] [OT] Linux vs. BSD

2002-12-08 Thread Andreas K. Foerster
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 05:35:29PM +0600, Day Brown wrote: Anyone care to suggest what the percentage of downloads need to be compled vs just extracted to the appropriate directory and run? Anyone care to offer how often this needs to be done in dos,... drdos, romdos, freedos, msdos? If

Re: [fd-dev] [OT] Linux vs. BSD

2002-12-08 Thread Day Brown
Andreas K. Foerster wrote: On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 05:35:29PM +0600, Day Brown wrote: Anyone care to suggest what the percentage of downloads need to be compled vs just extracted to the appropriate directory and run? Anyone care to offer how often this needs to be done in dos,... drdos,

Re: [fd-dev] [OT] Linux vs. BSD (was:Dosemu)

2002-12-07 Thread Day Brown
Eric Auer wrote: Okay, have to add my 2c here, too... Linux and BSD are both Unix operating systems and therefore similar. But they started out as replacement of two different mainframe Unix operating systems, therefore they differ. For example devices and configuration files and directory

RE: [fd-dev] [OT] Linux vs. BSD (was:Dosemu)

2002-12-04 Thread Kristaps Kaupe
No, Linux is a bit more than just a rewrite of Minix... ;-)) Ok, Ok, I only want to say that it is not rewrite of BSD. Or would you call OS/2 a rewrite of Windows 3.0? No, OS/2 is not rewrite of Windows. OS/2 1.0 is non-GUI OS. It was written as replacement for DOS (OS/2 means Operating

Re: [fd-dev] [OT] Linux vs. BSD (was:Dosemu)

2002-12-04 Thread Simon Waite
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 12:55:26PM +0100, Jensen, Gerard said this: Linux is a rewrite of BSD. No, Linux is rewrite of Minix. [snip] No, Linux is a bit more than just a rewrite of Minix... ;-)) Or would you call OS/2 a rewrite of Windows 3.0? No, I'd call NT a rewrite of OS/2, and

Re: [fd-dev] [OT] Linux vs. BSD (was:Dosemu)

2002-12-04 Thread Aitor Santamaria Merino
Simon Waite wrote: On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 12:55:26PM +0100, Jensen, Gerard said this: Linux is a rewrite of BSD. No, Linux is rewrite of Minix. [snip] No, Linux is a bit more than just a rewrite of Minix... ;-)) Or would you call OS/2 a rewrite of Windows 3.0? No, I'd call NT a

Re: [fd-dev] [OT] Linux vs. BSD (was:Dosemu)

2002-12-04 Thread Simon Waite
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 03:41:23PM +0100, Aitor Santamaria Merino said this: Simon Waite wrote: On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 12:55:26PM +0100, Jensen, Gerard said this: Linux is a rewrite of BSD. No, Linux is rewrite of Minix. [snip] No, Linux is a bit more than just a rewrite of

Re: [fd-dev] [OT] Linux vs. BSD (was:Dosemu)

2002-12-04 Thread Simon Waite
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 03:45:02PM +0100, Andreas K. Foerster said this: Hello, this is partly offtopic, but I come back to FreeDos later in this mail! To FreeDos and Minix: Today there are also versions of Minix called DosMinix. URL ? -- list options/archives/etc.:

Re: [fd-dev] [OT] Linux vs. BSD (was:Dosemu)

2002-12-04 Thread Andreas K. Foerster
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 04:43:32PM +, Simon Waite wrote: Today there are also versions of Minix called DosMinix. URL ? Was given at the end of the mail - the part, that you deleted. ;-) http://www.cs.vu.nl/pub/minix/2.0.3/ You have to scroll down a little on this page -- Tschuess

Re: [fd-dev] [OT] Linux vs. BSD (was:Dosemu)

2002-12-04 Thread Simon Waite
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 06:18:57PM +0100, Andreas K. Foerster said this: On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 04:43:32PM +, Simon Waite wrote: Today there are also versions of Minix called DosMinix. URL ? Was given at the end of the mail - the part, that you deleted. ;-)

Re: [fd-dev] [OT] Linux vs. BSD (was:Dosemu)

2002-12-04 Thread Andreas K. Foerster
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 05:25:26PM +, Simon Waite wrote: [DosMINIX] http://www.cs.vu.nl/pub/minix/2.0.3/ You have to scroll down a little on this page Ah my bad. looks interesting, now I wonder if it works in w2k... According to the manpage dosminix(8) that is problematic. And if,

RE: [fd-dev] [OT] Linux vs. BSD (was:Dosemu)

2002-12-04 Thread Eric Auer
Okay, have to add my 2c here, too... Linux and BSD are both Unix operating systems and therefore similar. But they started out as replacement of two different mainframe Unix operating systems, therefore they differ. For example devices and configuration files and directory structure sometimes

Re: [fd-dev] [OT] Linux vs. BSD (was:Dosemu)

2002-12-04 Thread Aitor Santamaria Merino
Eric Auer wrote: OS/2 became a full-blown OS with a GUI around 1994, and it feels like a logical extension of DOS, adding GUI and multitasking. In 1994/1995, it was unclear whether OS/2 (better design) or Windows 95 (better marketing) would win the market. Things went horribly wrong, so almost