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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!mimbres.cs.unm.edu!tesuque.cs.sandia.gov!lynx.unm.edu!nntp.sunbelt.net!udel!gatech!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!nic-nac.CSU.net!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!csusac!csus.edu!netcom.com!jmonroy From: jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) Subject: Re: FreeBSD versus Linux Message-ID: <jmonroyCuFuM1.99M@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] References: <gbu.35.001F725F@uhc.com> <jmonroyCuC9ut.1n8@netcom.com> <michaelv.776576552@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> <jmonroyCuDCnu.59v@netcom.com> <michaelv.776637485@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 1994 20:08:25 GMT Lines: 46 Michael L. VanLoon (michaelv@iastate.edu) wrote: : In <jmonroyCuDCnu.59v@netcom.com> jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) writes: : >Michael L. VanLoon (michaelv@iastate.edu) wrote: : >: In <jmonroyCuC9ut.1n8@netcom.com> jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) writes: : >: >Gary Udstrand (gbu@uhc.com) wrote: : >: >: I want to set up a sytem at home to run XFree and SLIP. I will be using this : >: > my recommondation is that you might wait a few weeks. : >: > 386BSD release 1.0 is scheduled to mail. : >: > What's in the package? : >: > I can't say, but I think the offering will be well recieved. : >: Oh gawd... someone asks whether he should prefer one of two well : >: debugged and established systems. And Jesus' answer is: don't use one : >: of them, wait longer for something that we know nothing about! : > as for the joke about "debugged and established", : > check your quasi-relese numbers next time you have : > a quip. :: [deleted stuff] :: : Jesus, you have a real interesting skew on reality. The only : quasi-anything here is this quasi-release of 386BSD-1.0, which, even : after having been advertised in a national publication for months, : nobody has yet actually seen. : Let's stick to the subject here, as you suggested. Slip and PPP. Both sick versions of a phone line protocols - neither option is great, but they are options non-the-less. In the same course, and context, so is 386bsd... as is FreeBSD and NetBSD. Babble in the shower if you want to distort numbers. And quite wastinge bandwidth on your personal ego problems. -- Jesus Monroy Jr jmonroy@netcom.com Zebra Research /386BSD/device-drivers /fd /qic /clock /documentation ___________________________________________________________________________