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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:10717 comp.unix.bsd:13558 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!hookup!news.moneng.mei.com!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!umn.edu!uum1!newsserver!rhealey From: rhealey@sirius.aggregate.com (Rob Healey) Subject: Re: BSD vs. Linux Sender: usenet@newsserver.aggregate.com (Usenet News Administrative Account) Message-ID: <CMCy6w.I4I@newsserver.aggregate.com> Date: Tue, 8 Mar 1994 18:04:08 GMT References: <1994Mar8.141900.2906@wubios.wustl.edu> <2li8sn$6m8@spruce.cic.net> Nntp-Posting-Host: sirius.aggregate.com Organization: Aggregate Computing, Inc. Minneapolis,MN Lines: 32 In article <2li8sn$6m8@spruce.cic.net>, Paul Southworth <pauls@locust.cic.net> wrote: >In article <1994Mar8.141900.2906@wubios.wustl.edu>, >David J Camp <david@wubios.wustl.edu> wrote: >>What are the relative merits of NetBSD vs. Linux? Is either >>technically superior? I suppose BSD is more portable. How difficult >>is would it be to port the Linux utilities to BSD? -David- > >They're free. Try them both. If people could actually agree that one >is better, it would be impossible to explain why both have such large >and devoted followings. > Enter soapbox mode: There is one basic reason to choose NetBSD over Linux for alot of people: It runs fully on something other than an x86. i.e. NetBSD has full support for x86, SPARC, Sun3, Amiga, HP300, Mac and a few other architectures. Those of us who prefer to avoid the x86 architecture go with NetBSD because it is the only one of the major Free UNIXi that runs fully on non-x86 architectures. In the end I think NetBSD will probably be the strongest BSD derived OS due to the wide array of architectures it supports. More people to insure better portability and robustness. End soapbox mode: -Rob