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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.clark.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!TAMUTS.TAMU.EDU!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!mcrcim.mcgill.edu!homer.cs.mcgill.ca!storm Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: 386BSD or NetBSD? Message-ID: <28porg$mno@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) Date: 4 Oct 1993 18:08:48 GMT References: <9310041624.AA0109@havoc.ns.doe.gov> <crt.749753294@tiamat.umd.umich.edu> Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada NNTP-Posting-Host: mnementh.cs.mcgill.ca Lines: 35 In article <crt.749753294@tiamat.umd.umich.edu>, Rob Shady <crt@tiamat.umd.umich.edu> wrote: >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. ;) Could the authors of FreeBSD and NetBSD PLEASE STOP THEIR FLAMES NOW and abort their posts. Readers of comp.os.386bsd.* should well know by now what comments like this can do.... (it's sad, but such is life...) This post tends to give the impression that FreeBSD is somewhat less stable than NetBSD. I doubt this is the case. It jsut doesn't have the urge to be as 'cutting edge' (or whatever the trendy term for the day is) as NetBSD..... TOodlepiP! Marc 'em. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Wandschneider Seattle, WA "Satan has a stranglehold on my toilet and he won't let go!" - frm the Weekly World News