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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!osyjm From: osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: BSD/386 Commercial Product Date: 26 Jul 1993 17:10:48 GMT Organization: Computer Science, MSU, Bozeman MT, 59717 Lines: 27 Message-ID: <23136o$aa6@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <1778.2C53F9EF@mechanic.fidonet.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: fubar.cs.montana.edu According to Jeff Tomich <Jeff.Tomich@p1.f260.n3603.z1.FIDONET.ORG>: >Hello All! > >I'm looking into the full supported product of 386/BSD, does anyone have any good tales to discuss? I run BSDI 1.0 at home, although I'm thinking of bailing back to 386bsd. BSDI is a fine product, with good support *if* you happen to have the *exact* hardware that they support, and BSDI is/has been phenomenally slow in adding new stuff. (And things have been changed enough that taking drivers from 386bsd is not a simple drop-in). BSDI has good support for Adaptec scsi, no support for anything else. Putting in new funky things like Terry's LKM stuff, bde's intr stuff, npx code, sio, etc, are futile exercises under BSDI. In short, if you don't mind being trailing edge, and just want a solid platform to run X, and some TeX, and News, and SLIP, and stuff like that, then it's fine. And they have excellent technical support people available. If you want to hack, and try the latest stuff, forget it. -- Jaye Mathisen, COE Systems Manager (406) 994-4780 410 Roberts Hall,Dept. of Computer Science Montana State University,Bozeman MT 59717 osyjm@cs.montana.edu