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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: NFS permissions denied
Date: 17 May 94 13:58:26 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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cc: frison@eskimo.com
In <CpwrtK.CxF@eskimo.com> frison@eskimo.com (Glen Frison) writes:
>I have been using 386bsd 0.1 for a long time now, quite stable, so I
>haven't been following how the system is evolving, so my first question
>is quick: in a sentence or two, how has it evolved since plain old
>0.1 was available at agate many moons ago?
"It" hasn't evolved one byte since 0.1 was available many moons ago.
386BSD 0.1 is still the same old outdated 386BSD that has been sitting
on ftp sites (not many left now) since '92. Although, evidentally
Bill has released a CDROM with a newer version of 386BSD through Dr.
Dobb's Journal. But nobody knows what's on it, and Bill doesn't work
with people on the net anymore. And, if it's as buggy as 0.1 was,
NetBSD and FreeBSD are going to be *infinitely* more stable.
Two systems have evolved *from* 386BSD, though: NetBSD and FreeBSD.
Both are *much* more stable, have *many* more features and
enhancements, and are just generally a lot cleaner. I suggest you
read the FAQ to get a feel for the differences (although that may not
even answer all your questions). The BSD FAQ can be found on
ftp.iastate.edu in /pub/netbsd/FAQ (covers NetBSD, FreeBSD and
386BSD).
To get a feel for just how profound the changes have been since then,
you can retrieve the CHANGES file for NetBSD-0.9 (the last major
release) and for NetBSD-current (the beta sources for 1.0) from
ftp.iastate.edu in /pub/netbsd/NetBSD-0.9/CHANGES and in
/pub/netbsd/NetBSD-current/src/doc/CHANGES.
If you're interested, I have a much longer spiel about NetBSD that I
can send to you privately (it's too long to post).
--Michael
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