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From: jkh@nx.ilo.dec.com (Jordan Hobbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: What is a good hardware setup for FreeBSD, from scratch?
Date: 04 Mar 1994 16:27:15 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Galway Ireland
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In-reply-to: wjw@ebh.eb.ele.tue.nl's message of 2 Mar 1994 13:15:37 -0100

In article <2l2729$4c8@ebh.eb.ele.tue.nl> wjw@ebh.eb.ele.tue.nl (Willem Jan Withagen) writes:

   It's novice question but would FreeBSD or NetBSD differ much in this 
   perspective? My guess would be that there would be little difference in low
   level drivers between both systems.

Your guess would be correct.  With the possible exception of audio support,
NetBSD tries to track FreeBSD's supported hardware configurations and
vice-versa (that is to say, all politics aside, if one *BSD camp gets
a wizzy driver for some new ethernet or SCSI controller card, the other
integrates it pretty quickly).

   So what about the UtraStore 34F, which I was advised to buy (haven't yet)
   I can buy both localbus version for about the same price.

That'll work too.

					Jordan