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From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: 386bsd new release - when?
Date: 2 Sep 1993 07:01:44 GMT
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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References: <26352j$nst@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <1993Sep2.003102.675@news.csuohio.edu> <CGD.93Sep1175536@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
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In article <CGD.93Sep1175536@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU> cgd@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes:
>In article <1993Sep2.003102.675@news.csuohio.edu> stever@csuohio.edu (Steve Ratliff) writes:
>
>NetBSD exists NOW, works, and where it doesn't work it's improving.
>
>FreeBSD doesn't really exist now (as they've made no "final" public
>	release of any version).
>
>386BSD 0.1 exists now, and with the patchkit works, though not nearly
>	as well as NetBSD 0.9.  it's not going anywhere.
>
>386BSD 0.2 (?) doesn't exist now, and nobody has much of an idea when
>	it will.
>
>hence, jaye said to go with NetBSD...

	Just to asdd to the discussion---I just got my machine
	a few days back, and sitting there trying to decide which OS I would
	install (since there is no way DOS is lving on this thing)

	I had the choice of 386bsd 0.1 +pk 0.2.4, FreeBSD, and
	NetBSD, or waiting for 0.2

	The FreeBSD thing fell through, because it's not here,
	and it's still largely 0.1 baseed, which is getting kind of old.

	I tried 0.1 + pk 0.2.4, and wanted to make sure I had enough swap space,
	and after about 3 hours of fucking up my hard disk, and unhappy
	reboot,s I gave up on that and went with the NetBSD stuff.

	THe total install took about 90 minutes, and I now have the
	latext XFree86 server running with my S3 805 card, and am
	wizzing away, compiling programs that I feel like, only
	a few problems along the way...

	There are a lot of neat features rumored to be in 0.2, but then
	again,	these are RUMORS, nobody knows when this will be out,
	and what exactly it will be like. At least with NetBSD, stuff
	is coming out fairly regularly.

	The only complaint I have with NetBSD is the rather low tolerance the
	major contributors seem to have with "newbies", but this is
	something that is overcome with some effort, and thinking
	I suppose...


						NO Macro yet
						Marc 'em.


	P.S.  Please excuse all the typos.  The linkfrom
	Seattle to Montreal is fiendishly slow, and I have little desire
	to correct mistakes, as it slows things down considerably... :-)
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Marc Wandschneider					    Montreal, Canada
	"Satan has a stranglehold on my toilet and he won't let go!"
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