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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.unomaha.edu!crcnis1.unl.edu!cse!rse From: rse@cse.unl.edu (robert ellsworth) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: NetBSD or FreeBSD? Stability ?? Date: 4 Feb 1994 05:53:22 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Lines: 45 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2isnsi$3ot@crcnis1.unl.edu> References: <2ir0h9$cme@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: cse.unl.edu phar006@wrzx12.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de (Thomas Heiling) writes: >Hello! >I am running here a LINUX-system, but i am >willing to switch to a *BSD system. >Can anyone explain to me , what the differences between >NetBSD and FreeBSD are ?? Ok.. Here is my stab at the difference between the two (please, correct me if I am wrong. I'd like to know the truth if I'm off). FreeBSD is a BSD unix that is geared torwards stability. The *BSD's have sounder networking code (wouldn't say better because I don't know the state of the current Linux network code). The *BSD's use NET/2 code which is supposably a lot more stable than the new Linux code. NetBSD is a unix geared towards development of unix ideas. NetBSD (in the -current form) has shared libraries like Linux (thus taking up less space. How much?? I do not exactly know). >From the FAQ ( it's a little bit outdated ... ) i >can't see the real differences (:. >Another question is the required space, >the FAQ says it uses about 80 MB ( FreeBSD ), >( while my LINUX here uses only 50 MB ). Sorry, couldn't tell ya what the net-gain is for using shared libs under a *BSD unix, but I'd venture to say you could chop off at least 10+megs of space from the origional estimates. >Sorry for this, but it is *not* clear from the FAQ, >what the differences are. >BTW From some Postings I saw, that the FreeBSD 1.1 >should have shared libs, what does this mean for >space Requirements ?? >Thanks for your Help ! >Thomas Heiling >-- ><<<<<<<< .signature under construction >>>>>>>>>> >for now email phar006@wrzx12.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de >or phar006@vax.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Robert Ellsworth - Undergraduate Studies of CS @ UNL - rse @cse.unl.edu * * "A Rose by any other name, is still a Rose not in Baseball" - Bill Cosby * -----------------------------------------------------------------------------