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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Status on discussed merge between NetBSD and FreeBSD Date: 14 Nov 1993 19:40:49 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman MT Lines: 32 Message-ID: <2c61k1$j2p@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <JKH.93Nov13222001.2@whisker.lotus.ie> <CGD.93Nov14100033@eden.cs.berkeley.edu> <CGHv40.BKF@kithrup.com> <2c60p5$p6v@zip.eecs.umich.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <2c60p5$p6v@zip.eecs.umich.edu>, >Well, why doesn't someone say why freebsd is better? If it's worse, or >at best equal, why take resources (users, programmers, etc.) from netbsd? Nobody's *taking* anything from anyone else. None of the FreeBSD core members have been a part of NetBSD in any shape other than contributors who worked on *both* system. >*I'm not saying this is the case*, but if one system is better than the other, >it's hardly fair to claim otherwise, confusing the issue for people deciding >on which system to use. Because anything I say would be rebutted with insults, and screams and yells and flamage saying 'I haven't a clue, I'm a loser, I know nothing' etc, etc, etc.. The occasional tid-bit of technical would slip in on both sides, but it would be lost in the fallout. For people that have run both (and there are folks who have switched from one version to the other, both ways) you will get mixed results. Some claim that NetBSD is a piece of garbage, other's say the same thing about FreeBSD. There is no cut/dried rules or features that one version has over the other that makes it 100% better than the other system. (I'll probably be flamed for this as well, sigh...) Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me