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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1858 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 15:01:25 EST Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!ecn.purdue.edu!helz From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) Subject: Re: 386BSD vs BSDI Message-ID: <1993Feb22.020449.20823@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> Sender: news@noose.ecn.purdue.edu (USENET news) Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network References: <BRISTER.93Feb20214032@netcom.Netcom.COM> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 02:04:49 GMT Lines: 37 In article <BRISTER.93Feb20214032@netcom.Netcom.COM>, brister@Netcom.COM (james brister) writes: |> What's the difference between the OS put out by BSDI that runs on a 386 and |> the 386BSD put out by WJ? We just tried to port a major piece of software over to Linux, 386BSD, and BSDI. We could only get it to work on BSDI. For the price, BSDI is a major bargain and well worth the headaches we could have avoided by just going with it first. |> - major functionality differences? BSDI seems to be faster than 386BSD, at least on the machines we've tested them both on. It must have undergone some major tweaking. |> - How robust is 386BSD? BSDI? While we were working with 386BSD we experienced some intermittant crashes and there must have been a memory leak somewhere because we ran out of memory after a while. BSDI, however, seems to be rock-solid. |> - Advantages of one over the other? 386BSD is free :-) BSDI costs bux, but if you're going to use either for any kind of production environment, don't even think about 386BSD. Go ahead and fork over the $1k for the BSDI kernal, you'll be glad you did. The company was quite responsive to all our questions and the saved headaches alone were worth manyfold the $1k. The only disadvantage I can think of (and it applies equally to 386BSD and BSDI) is the (bogus) AT & T lawsuit against BSDI. I've got no connexion with the company--just a very satisfied customer.