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From: ahasty@muadib.cisco.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: net / free bsd ?
Date: 21 Mar 1994 20:17:22 GMT
Organization: Cisco Corp
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Jason Baker wrote in article <1994Mar21.164228.20207@news.csuohio.edu> :
>
>In article <B40PAnr.dysonj@delphi.com> John Dyson <dysonj@delphi.com> writes:
>>a way that everyone could get along, and maybe some day we will... I am
>>very willing to make an honest comparison between the two BSD OSes and
>>in some applications FreeBSD is better, others NetBSD is better and in
>>a lot of applications it is a toss-up. I don't know -- just wish there
>
> Please go on. I am putting together a pc, and once I get a
>hard disk I will put bsd on it. I would really like to know what ARE
>the differences between the two versions.
>
> thanks,
> Jason
Try both they are free.
For starters, if you decide to go the NetBSD route you will have to
install first netbsd-0.9 and then quickly upgrade to netbsd-current.
Netbsd-current can be a bit tricky to upgrade to because it is a
development tree.
FreeBSD has a beta release which installation wise the source tree
is much more recent than netbsd-0.9.
Perhaps if you state what is it that you are going to use
the system for we may be able to help you out a bit more.
Me, I use FreeBSD at work and my system has been up for more 20 days and I
use my system for news, e-mail, compililation, just normal every day
work stuff... Like I have compiled isode-8.0's snmpV2 and I have the
tcl/tk extensions for ISODE's snmpV2 up and running.
Hope this helps,
Amancio
**** this is just my opinion *****