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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!destroyer!mudos.pc.cc.cmu.edu!mudos.pc.cc.cmu.edu!not-for-mail From: mju@mudos.pc.cc.cmu.edu (Marc Unangst) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. NetBSD vs. BSDI Date: 19 Sep 1993 22:09:09 -0400 Organization: The Programmers' Pit Stop, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 23 Message-ID: <27j3cj$81t@mudos.pc.cc.cmu.edu> References: <199309191453.AA04519@visgraph.uucp> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.pc.cc.cmu.edu forrie@decvax.dec.com writes: >The fact that X windows doesn't run on NetBSD yet Funny, XFree86 (X11R5) works just fine on my machine running NetBSD. As others have said, I don't think your contacts really know what they're talking about. >Another concern is system security, reliability, and stability. And >portabililty ability ;) :) I assume that most GNU programs will compile >with no problem on these. What about INN? Networking stability is also >a plus plus. I've had no problems with network stability, or with general system stability. INN compiles and runs with only a few glitches, mostly in the shell scripts, but bash 1.13 should fix those problems. Most other net software compiles and runs easily. The only real sticking point is the fact that the shell isn't exactly bug-for-bug compatible with the AT&T Bourne shell, so some scripts need tweaking. -- Marc Unangst, N8VRH | "Free software is NOT the same thing as mju@mudos.pc.cc.cmu.edu | free beer." | -Philip Knapp in comp.os.linux