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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:8765 comp.os.386bsd.misc:1947 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!emory!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!news-feed-2.peachnet.edu!umn.edu!marlin!cheangk From: cheangk@marlin.micro.umn.edu (Pitt Cheang) Subject: [q] Why (Free & Net)BSD use different binaries? Message-ID: <CL7tvx.A74@news.cis.umn.edu> Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration) Nntp-Posting-Host: marlin.micro.umn.edu Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis: Under Grad Workstation Lab. Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 13:10:24 GMT Lines: 20 I have been using Linux for a while and very happy with it, browsing through 386bsd newsgroups and having some opinion compare between the two different multiprocessing OS, makes me want to try how 386bsd taste. I believe people from here would suggest either FreeBSD or NetBSD, however I have a question thought. Why would there exist two versions of XFree86 for FreeBSD and NetBSD ? Motif ? If both are diversed from 386bsd, I couldn't think of any ideas what is the difference would make seperate binaries, are they different in binary code or just filesystem structure? Are the different in kernel code ? or are they just different in distribution method? Right now have just downloaded FreeBSD, (it takes me two days to get them all), should I try NetBSD also? For linux, different distributions still base on the same kernel code, are FreeBSD and NetBSD a totally different story? I'm asking this because there is NetBSD supporting other platform, but never heard of FreeBSD on other kind of machine using different CPU, will the amiga, macintosh, sun etc.. port of NetBSD work on FreeBSD ?? Thanks for you time typing in your informations.