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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!olivea!grapevine.lcs.mit.edu!ai-lab!life.ai.mit.edu!mycroft From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Patchkit folks, get FreeBSD! (was:[386bsd] ghostscript 2.5.2 epson driver) Date: 22 Sep 1993 19:38:26 GMT Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab Lines: 14 Message-ID: <MYCROFT.93Sep22153826@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <5@czos9.trystero.com> <27po4i$1sp@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> <27prct$if2@pdq.coe.montana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu In-reply-to: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu's message of 22 Sep 1993 15:35:57 GMT In article <27prct$if2@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: Note, with the library fixes in FreeBSD, most everything compiles with both gcc2 and gcc1, so I would advise EVERYONE to upgrade to FreeBSD who is now running patchkit systems. As a point of reference: I have had no trouble at all with any non-broken third party programs under NetBSD since the various sh bugs were fixed. (Some of these bug fixes were not in 0.9 and are not yet in FreeBSD.) And I have compiled a *lot* of third party software, on both the i386 and hp300 ports...