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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!noc.near.net!hopscotch.ksr.com!jfw From: jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD VS BSDI/386 ? - Date: 25 Aug 1994 20:43:14 GMT Organization: Kendall Square Research Lines: 22 Message-ID: <33ivp2$dt3@hopscotch.ksr.com> References: <337ktb$qil@werple.apana.org.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: kaos.ksr.com john@hysteria.apana.org.au (John Herks) writes: >Whats Better ? Yes, What is definitely better, because it has been shipping in its final form since the English language (mostly) stabilized centuries ago. Better at what? Which one makes a better tea cozy? Cleans bathroom tiles more easily? Tastes great? Less filling? If you've just got to have a short answer: BSDI's product has the advantage that there exist people who are PAID to listen to your bug reports and fix them; if this is important to you, then you really have no choice*. However, the fact that they ARE being paid directly implies that you have to pay BSDI, $1K for a source license, and $250(???) for a binary only license. If you want a cheap OS source to marvel at and maybe screw around with, and don't mind that the maintainers are just random hackers with real day jobs, then the *BSD releases are what you want to look into (and if you value your keyboard, don't ask which of them is "better" :-). If neither of these particular issues is interesting to you, then you'll have to be just a tiny bit more specific.