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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!bradford.ac.uk!t.d.g.sandford From: t.d.g.sandford@bradford.ac.uk (Thomas Sandford) Subject: FreeBSD or NetBSD-0.9 ? Message-ID: <1993Aug24.094944.15984@info.brad.ac.uk> X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL9] Date: Tue, 24 Aug 93 09:49:43 BST Lines: 15 Now that NetBSD-0.9 has been released, and FreeBSD is just around the corner, how do I choose which one is right for me? I mainly want to use my machine, rather than hack at it. This means I want stability rather than bleeding edge technology. I also want to be able to port stuff with the minimum changes so I'm looking for compatibility (POSIX ? SYSV ? BSD ?) rather than wonderful new (but incompatible) research ideas. While these are *my* requirements, I'm sure there are lots of others with different requirements, but who also want to know the same thing - so - general information from both groups please. Likewise follow up by posting rather than personal email as I think this is of general interest. -- Thomas Sandford | t.d.g.sandford@bradford.ac.uk