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From: jfieber@sophia.smith.edu (J Fieber)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD or NetBSD-0.9 ?
Message-ID: <1993Aug24.132725.3171@sophia.smith.edu>
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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1993 13:27:25 GMT
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In article <1993Aug24.094944.15984@info.brad.ac.uk> t.d.g.sandford@bradford.ac.uk (Thomas Sandford) writes:
>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?

Ditto.

Is there anyone who has good knowledge of both systems care to
provide a "top-10" list of essential differences between the two.
Both technical and philosophical differences are relevant.  

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
to choose based only on the initial upgrade effort---the harder
upgrade now could save later down the road?

>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.

Ditto again.

Running XS3 is also critical for me.  Last I heard from
hasty@netcom.com was that XS3 didn't work NetBSD current didn't
work; FreeBSD is still an unknown at this point.  Since I don't
have the resources or knowledge to hack on the server myself I
may have to follow XS3 wherever it goes...


-john
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