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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!mcsun!ieunet!ieunet!dec4ie.ieunet.ie!jkh From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. NetBSD vs. BSDI In-Reply-To: forrie@visgraph.UUCP's message of 19 Sep 1993 11: 06:16 -0500 Message-ID: <JKH.93Sep19190126@whisker.lotus.ie> Sender: usenet@ieunet.ie (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: whisker.lotus.ie Organization: Lotus Development Ireland References: <199309191453.AA04519@visgraph.uucp> Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1993 19:01:26 GMT Lines: 26 >BSDI seems to be a very 'robust' and stable system. A friend of mine Yep. >NetBSD (where can you get it?), I understand, is more 4.4BSD, and growing. sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu >FreeBSD, from what I understand, is basically 386BSD, and doesn't >get a lot of development/support, and is more of a hacker's OS? This is That's really funny. That's exactly what folks usually say about NetBSD! I don't think either one really deserves to be called "a hackers OS" - we both put a lot of work into trying to ensure stability (hell, we don't like our own boxes crashing any more than you do!). I think your private email contacts have no idea what they're talking about. FreeBSD has far fewer changes in it, that much I can say with reasonable confidence, but neither it nor NetBSD is "basically 386BSD" either. We've all left 386BSD quite a bit behind! Jordan -- Jordan Hubbard jkh@violet.berkeley.edu, jkh@al.org, jkh@whisker.lotus.ie