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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!pa.dec.com!vixie From: vixie@pa.dec.com (Paul A Vixie) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 386BSD vs. BSD/386: Which is better for me? Date: 16 Apr 93 01:38:42 Organization: DEC Network Systems Lab Lines: 31 Message-ID: <VIXIE.93Apr16013842@cognition.pa.dec.com> References: <1993Apr16.050814.10195@candle.uucp> NNTP-Posting-Host: cognition.pa.dec.com In-reply-to: root@candle.uucp's message of Fri, 16 Apr 1993 05:08:14 GMT I think the answer to this... [Bruce Momjian] >> I am considering moving from my AT&T 386 Unix SVr3.1 to one of these >> operating systems because they come with OS source code. >> >> I know one is free and the other is not, but I would like to know how >> the two differ. >> >> I am a programmer/consultant, and am considering this for my home 386 >> machine, which I use as a new feed and for programming. ...has to be "it depends on what you want to work on". BSD/386 is intended to be a production-level operating system that you _can_ play in and with if you want but that you won't _have to_ play in and with if you don't want to. 386BSD is a fine operating system if you want to work on your operating system (installing patches from the net, mostly). BSD/386 is a fine operating system if you have other work that is of critical importance to you and you want the operating system to just sit there and do what you tell it to do. Personally I would rather have something that I have to work on, since I find working on operating systems to be kinda fun. Your views and goals may differ. On the other hand my home machine is currently running Ultrix and will shortly run BSD/386. I have guest users who depend on reliable service without patch- of-the-week syndrome. -- Paul Vixie, DEC Network Systems Lab Palo Alto, California, USA "Don't be a rebel, or a conformist; <vixie@pa.dec.com> decwrl!vixie they're the same thing, anyway. Find <paul@vix.com> vixie!paul your own path, and stay on it." -me