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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: 386BSD or NetBSD?
Message-ID: <crt.749753294@tiamat.umd.umich.edu>
From: crt@tiamat.umd.umich.edu (Rob Shady)
Date: 4 Oct 1993 12:50:30 -0400
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martinj@havoc.ns.doe.gov (James Martin                 ) writes:

>I'm bringing up a new box to act as a secondary nameserver and was wondering 
>wether it should be 386BSD or NetBSD? I've had a 386BSD box running for about a
>year running named and some other stuff, is NetBSD very different (the readme 
>files say it's 386BSD with patches - is this true?). Is NetBSD a pain to get 
>running?

<BZZZTT!>  Not!

386BSD  - Very, VERY buggy!
FreeBSD - 386BSD with patches & minor enhancements.
NetBSD  - 386BSD with patches & MAJOR enhancements!
Linux   - ... Well, not worth mentioning. ;)