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From: di1helol@gertrud.his.se (hElgE oLSeN)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Which version of 386BSD should I go for?
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Date: 17 Nov 93 10:38:59 GMT
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Hi!
I recently upgraded my computer to i386 DX/33 with 4 Megs of memory.
Now, I want to install a UN*X on this box, and therefore I have a few
questions:
* Which versions of 386BSD exists; I want a reasonably stable
development system without too many serious bugs or limitations.
* The C-compiler for this system, is it gcc, and if so which version?
* I want to have X, does it exist, and if so, what hardware
requirements are there (I know that I will bave to buy more memory)?
What graphics cards are supported, and how much extra space will I
need? Preferrably I want a mono version of X, as it eats a *lot*
less memory than color X.
How does the system perform compared to linux and commercial systems?
Does it have shared libraries and thread libraries? We are doing a
project in school on IPC in distributed environments, so it would be
nice if my home system could use networking code and threads. I have
heard a lot about linux, but it seems to me that it has less BSD:isms
than what I want, so after what I heard (and read) the 386BSD system
is more like what I want.
Thanks in advance for any hints you may have.
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