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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:4897 comp.os.386bsd.misc:899 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU!ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au!lugb!latcs1!latcs5.lat.oz.au!wongm Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: from 386bsd0.1 to FreeBSD or NetBSD 0.9 Message-ID: <CD190K.FwG@latcs1.lat.oz.au> From: wongm@latcs5.lat.oz.au (M.C. Wong) Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1993 11:24:20 GMT Sender: news@latcs1.lat.oz.au (news) Organization: Comp Sci, La Trobe Uni, Australia Nntp-Posting-Host: latcs5.lat.oz.au Lines: 35 Hi, I am currently using 386bsd 0.1 + pk 0.2.4! My question is how easy it is to upgrade from : i) 386bsd to FreeBSD ii) 386bsd to NetBSD My question is do I have to reinstall everything to go from existing system to either one of them ? Also , Since FreeBSD incorporate all of the patchkits, does it mean, it will cut down the overall installed size ? (since we no longer need to keep a separate dir for the patchkit)! I read some discussion about FreeBSD and NetBSD are quite similar, and before I go ahead ftp megabytes of stuff, I will like people that has done the above transition to give me some experience. Basically, I will like to get all of the features I am having in the old system, ie sio supports, XFree 1-3, syscons-0.2, slip support etc etc ...! Apart from ease of transition to a newer platform, I wonder if anyone can summarize some improvements over 386bsd, eg performance wise, less bugs etc ? Last question is, if 386bsd 0.2 is ever going to come out, is there an easy upgrade from 386bsd 0.1 to it? How about from FreeBSD to 386bsd 0.2 ? I am waiting for a big change over but hope to stick with 386bsd 0.2 (when it comes out). And is has been months that I wait for the announcement for its birth. I wonder if anyone knows of any development of it, and when it will be released by estimation ? Many thanks in advance! - wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au -- - wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au