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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu!tbird.cc.iastate.edu!explorer From: explorer@iastate.edu (Michael Graff) Subject: Which to choose... Message-ID: <explorer.738353290@tbird.cc.iastate.edu> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA Date: Tue, 25 May 1993 18:08:10 GMT Lines: 36 Watching all this ``which is better'' bs flying all over the net, I can't help but think that there are parts of each system that I need, and some parts don't want to work. I have three systems in my apartment -- a 386 w/170M hd, which runs 0.1+0.2.3, along with some other changes I have made (syscons installed, and updated uucp to 1.04, along with other small changes). My roomate has 0.1+0.2.3 as well, and nfs mounts my /usr partition. I also have a third machine which I just got, and it has a 400M SCSI, so I am free to install whatever I wish there because it can be standalone if I choose NetBSD this 'round. The problem is, netbsd is rumored to be more stable (which I have not noticed -- it seems more flakey to me, and 0.2.3 seems to be much more stable in many ways) and 0.1 will soon be likely to be unsupported and it will become 0.2. The question is, do I wish to update to 0.2 when the time comes, or will I then have to choose 0.2 or NetBSD? NetBSD seems to have the goals I'm looking for -- stability, productive environment, etc. but does not do everything I currently need or would like to have. 0.2 is nice I'm sure, but I don't like walking away from the internals of BSD very far -- I do a bit of kernel hacking, and need PPP, for example. If the new version of 386bsd changes all this now or at a later date, those mods are all in need of an update. All in all, I don't know exactly what to do on this. I'm afraid I might be one more ``convert'' and move to NetBSD. --Michael ``sigh'' Graff -- Michael Graff <explorer@iastate.edu> Speaking for myself, not Project Vincent Voice: (515)294-4994 for ISU or the ISUCC Iowa State Univ Comp Center Fax: (515)294-1717 Ames, IA 50011 -=*> PGP key on pgp-public-keys@pgp.iastate.edu <*=-