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From: gabara@peanuts.Informatik.Uni-Tuebingen.DE (Andrej Gabara)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Info on NetBSD & FreeBSD
Date: 24 Jul 1994 22:47:47 GMT
Organization: Wilhelm Schickard Institut, Tuebingen
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Message-ID: <30ur2j$ege@wsiserv.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
Reply-To: gabara@peanuts.Informatik.Uni-Tuebingen.DE
NNTP-Posting-Host: helga.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de
Keywords: NetBSD, FreeBSD
I'm currently running Linux, and would like to run BSD. I could not decide
on FreeBSD over NetBSD because I still have a bunch of questions:
(1) From the FAQs, NetBSD does not support the Mitsumi CD-ROM drive, while
FreeBSD does. Will that change for NetBSD 1.0?
(2) Has dld been ported to either FreeBSD and/or NetBSD? If not, will it be
available on NetBSD 1.0 or FreeBSD 2.0?
(3) Which, FreeBSD or NetBSD, has better POSIX support? Or are they pretty much
the same (I'm especially interested in POSIX pseudo tty interfaces)
(4) On Linux, all applications running in memory multiple times share one
text (code) segment. Is this true for {Free,Net}BSD too?
(5) When are FreeBSD 2.0 and NetBSD 1.0 coming out?
(6) Do FreeBSD or NetBSD support a MSDOS filesystem such as Linux?
Thank's
-Andrej