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From: osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD or NetBSD-0.9 ?
Date: 24 Aug 1993 17:19:49 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, MSU, Bozeman MT, 59717
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In article <1993Aug24.132725.3171@sophia.smith.edu>,
J Fieber <jfieber@sophia.smith.edu> wrote:
>Both technical and philosophical differences are relevant.  

The philosophical differences between NetBSD and FreeBSD are not really
that great, the differences come in how-to-implement.

>Up till now, upgrading my 386bsd through patchkits has provided
>the path of least resistance, but either the NetBSD or FreeBSD
>upgrades be quite a lot of work I gather.  However, I don't want

Hmmm, I think the upgrade from 386bsd to FreeBSD wasn't hard, it didn't
take me very long to do it.  From 386bsd to NetBSD is whole 'nother
issue that I haven't explored.

>Running XS3 is also critical for me.  Last I heard from

XS3 worked with FreeBSD as of the beta release, Nate's running it right
now, just down the hall.
-- 
 Jaye Mathisen, COE Systems Manager                (406) 994-4780
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 Montana State University,Bozeman MT 59717	osyjm@cs.montana.edu