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From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles M. Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Info on NetBSD & FreeBSD
Date: 25 Jul 1994 10:26:00 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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In-reply-to: gabara@peanuts.Informatik.Uni-Tuebingen.DE's message of 24 Jul 1994 22:47:47 GMT
In article <30ur2j$ege@wsiserv.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
gabara@peanuts.Informatik.Uni-Tuebingen.DE (Andrej Gabara) writes:
(1) From the FAQs, NetBSD does not support the Mitsumi CD-ROM
drive, while FreeBSD does. Will that change for NetBSD 1.0?
It's not true by a long shot. We've had this driver in our source
tree since November 4, 1993, and it will certainly be in the 1.0
release.
However, Mitsumi drives are very poor, and I don't suggest that people
use them.
(3) Which, FreeBSD or NetBSD, has better POSIX support?
NetBSD, definitely. We have a person (J.T. Conklin) actively working
on POSIX compliance.
(4) On Linux, all applications running in memory multiple times
share one text (code) segment. Is this true for {Free,Net}BSD
too?
They don't share a `segment', but the region of memory is shared
between processes. This has been true of BSD since before Linux was
even conceived.
(5) When are FreeBSD 2.0 and NetBSD 1.0 coming out?
NetBSD 1.0 will be out `some time around the end of July, 1994'.
(6) Do FreeBSD or NetBSD support a MSDOS filesystem such as Linux?
Yes. The one in NetBSD has had significantly more debugging, and has
some improvements in efficiency.
--
- Charles Hannum
NetBSD group
Working ports: i386, hp300, amiga, sun4c, mac68k, pc532, da30.
In progress: sun3, pmax, vax, sun4m.