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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: 386bsd to NetBSD: How easy, Good Idea? Message-ID: <hastyC76LqD.DII@netcom.com> Keywords: Switching 386bsd NetBSD Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <haley.737634899@husc.harvard.edu> <1t8605INN14f@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> Date: Mon, 17 May 1993 17:25:25 GMT Lines: 27 In article <1t8605INN14f@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess) writes: >In article <haley.737634899@husc.harvard.edu> haley@scws5.harvard.edu (Elizabeth Haley) writes: Well, NetBSD as far as I can tell is 386bsd plus patches or enhancements collected over the last year. I switched over to NetBSD 0.8. the only problem that I have seen so far is with getty or init not allowing me to use my dumb terminal. With 386bsd 0.1, I had a problem with X and gdb or ups(symbolic debugger), in that setting break points it would hang X. The problem was solved in NetBSD. Also, NetBSD seems faster than 386bsd 0.1. Kenny Roberts reported that his X performance nearly double - I have not been able to reproduce the same performance improvement on my system - perhaps because my X server is different for instance for many of the I/O instructions to the S3 928 card I don't use in/out but map the registers to memory :-) For many months we have been praying for an updated 386bsd + patches distribution, well I like to call it NetBSD :-) Amancio -- This message brought to you by the letters X and S and the number 3 Amancio Hasty | Home: (415) 495-3046 | ftp-site depository of all my work: e-mail hasty@netcom.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/incoming