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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!hookup!swrinde!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!asami From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi ASAMI) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Help, I may switch to Linux! Date: 26 May 94 12:41:26 Organization: CS Div. - EECS, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 Lines: 22 Message-ID: <ASAMI.94May26124126@forgery.cs.berkeley.edu> References: <dgaCqE010.6Bz@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: forgery.cs.berkeley.edu In-reply-to: dga@netcom.com's message of Wed, 25 May 1994 17:55:48 PST In article <dgaCqE010.6Bz@netcom.com> dga@netcom.com (Dennis Allard) writes: * I noticed that Dr. Dobbs advertises 386BSD release 1.0. * I assume that it is the same thing I tried to install back in * 1992. Is there an easy to install release 1.1 available. * I will pay good money for it and recommend it to others if it * works as well as Linux seems to. Pay no attention to 386BSD release 1.0. The one you tried in 1992 was probably version 0.0 or 0.1, but 386BSD has stopped evolving since then, and we have no idea what the differences between 0.1 and 1.0 are. Nobody has seen the code or the CD-ROM yet. There are two groups that spun off from the 386BSD camp, though, and they make competitive and easy-to-install operating systems. One is NetBSD, and the other is FreeBSD. I don't know where you can order an NetBSD CD-ROM (someone on NetBSD camp help me), but you can get FreeBSD-1.1 CD-ROM from Walnut Creek (ftp to freebsd.cdrom.com for details) at 1-800-786-9907. (You can finger info@cdrom.com too, but the one they have there talks about FreeBSD-1.0, one version older.) Satoshi (happy FreeBSD user)