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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:5061 comp.os.386bsd.misc:988 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!psgrain!ee.und.ac.za!hippo.ru.ac.za!itu1.sun.ac.za!abs From: abs@cs.sun.ac.za (Andre Skarzynski) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Comparing anything to NetBSD Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Date: 13 Sep 1993 08:55:35 GMT Organization: University of Stellenbosch Lines: 38 Message-ID: <271ci7$d5@itu1.sun.ac.za> References: <CD190K.FwG@latcs1.lat.oz.au> <DERAADT.93Sep10232713@newt.fsa.ca> <JKH.93Sep12051458@whisker.lotus.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: itu1.sun.ac.za X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@whisker.lotus.ie) wrote: : I've got an idea: Why not let the USERS decide how well we're doing, : rather than debating this endlessly between ourselves? If Lotus : and Microsoft were actually allowed to write the other company's : "BYTE" and "PC Magazine" reviews, I'm sure this is very much what : it would look like! Fortunately, such reviews are generally left : to people with the outsider's viewpoint. Hi there all, I have been playing with both NetBSD-0.9 and FreeBSD. Bofore that I was just using 386BSD+patchkits. I did try NetBSD-0.8, but had far to many problems with the wd drives to keep it. I was waiting for 386BSD-0.1.5 or FreeBSD to arrive when NetBSD-0.9 came on the scene. Goody I said, and installed it. I was disappointed, the install was easy enough, and the distribution comes in a nice modular format, so you can install what you want/need, but there where still bugs in the install. Missing permissions and files for /var/log/aculog etc. Also they NetBSD-0.9 now tries to use /dev/tty00, but this is no good, because if you are using a terminal on that port, "w","who", "finger" etc will not report anyone logged in on that port unless you set the ttys entry to use com0. I know this not a big problem, but it is a nuisance. Also I had troubles with wd driver. Not bad, but now and then my wd1003 would hang. When FreeBSD-1.0-GAMMA arrived, I installed it. I found that the installation was as easy as NetBSD, but a lot more informative of what was going on. Unfortantly it is not as modular as NetBSD, where the kernel source is separate from the complete source, but I did notice that all of the binary distribution files where there. (like sendamil.cf :). I will see how it goes with FreeBSD. So far things are working well. I am also a bit concerned about the /dev/com00 of FreeBSD! I still have lots of testing to do though. -- Andre B. Skarzynski -- Information Technology, University of Stellenbosch -- abs@itu1.sun.ac.za ------ Tel: +27 2231 774293 Fax: +27 2231 774102 -------