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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!destroyer!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!fornax!ballanty From: ballanty@cs.sfu.ca (Rob Ballantyne) Subject: 386BSD / NetBSD / FreeBSD Message-ID: <1993Sep28.050914.3374@cs.sfu.ca> Organization: CSS, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 05:09:14 GMT Lines: 33 At the risk of starting a religious war, which of 386BSD, NetBSD, or FreeBSD is more stable/usable. Let me explain my situation, that may help you understand why I ask. I am a site administrator at a mostly DOS shop. Recently our staff has discovered Unix & the Internet and wants in. What I am charged with doing is to provide them with this at a reasonable cost. What I was thinking was take the most stable/mature version of the various free BSD's out there and install it on a (may be more than one) blown out PC (486DX2 66MHz,32 MB memory, ESIA or VESA SCSI ...) and let them use mail/telnet/ftp/gopher/... Well, what do you think (he asked anxiously) (and perhaps with a small portion of trepidation about the possible consequences of such a question). Thanks for any advice you can provide. Cheers, Rob -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Rob Ballantyne | _____ | | email: ballanty@cs.sfu.ca | | | | Simon Fraser University, Department of | -----------O----------- | | Math/Stats Burnaby, BC, CANADA | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Rob Ballantyne | _____ | | email: ballanty@cs.sfu.ca | | | | Simon Fraser University, Department of | -----------O----------- |