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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Info on NetBSD & FreeBSD
Date: 25 Jul 94 09:04:45 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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Message-ID: <michaelv.775127085@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu>
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Keywords: NetBSD, FreeBSD
In <30ur2j$ege@wsiserv.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> gabara@peanuts.Informatik.Uni-Tuebingen.DE (Andrej Gabara) writes:
>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?
Yes, NetBSD-1.0 uses the same driver as FreeBSD, and supports the
Mitsumi drive. I have one in my machine right now, and I've read
several Ultrix CD-ROM's with it.
>(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?
What is dld?
>(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)
I know NetBSD-1.0 is very POSIX compliant in many aspects. I can't
speak for FreeBSD -- but would imagine they're in similar shape. What
exactly do you mean by POSIX pty's? NetBSD provides POSIX signals and
termios, and (of course) the BSD model of pty's. What else is there?
I wasn't aware of a specific POSIXism for pty's, themselves.
>(4) On Linux, all applications running in memory multiple times share one
> text (code) segment. Is this true for {Free,Net}BSD too?
Yes. I explain in detail in my previous post.
>(5) When are FreeBSD 2.0 and NetBSD 1.0 coming out?
NetBSD-1.0 was scheduled for release end of July/beginning of August,
last I heard. I can't get any more specific since I'm not a core
member.
FreeBSD-2.0 will be some time in coming (since 1.1.5 was just
released).
>(6) Do FreeBSD or NetBSD support a MSDOS filesystem such as Linux?
Yes, they both do. Though I've been told it's not quite as simple to
set up as the Linux version, since it uses BSD partitioning on top of
the drive, with DOS underneath, where Linux works inside DOS partions.
Once you get it setup, though, it's just like mounting and using a
unix filesystem, except for the limitations on filenames and file
links, and things like that.
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Michael L. VanLoon Iowa State University Computation Center
michaelv@iastate.edu Project Vincent Systems Staff
Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free Un*x for PC/Mac/Amiga/etc.
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